Every vice has its excuse ready.

Every vice has its excuse ready.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

His was the sort of career that made the Recording Angel think seriously about taking up shorthand.

His was the sort of career that made the Recording Angel think seriously about taking up shorthand.

Vice is such a hideous creature, that the more you see of it the better you like it.

Vice is such a hideous creature, that the more you see of it the better you like it.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

What were once vices are the fashion of the day.

What were once vices are the fashion of the day.

Idleness is the beginning of all vices.

Idleness is the beginning of all vices.

Folks who have no vices have plaguey few virtues.

Folks who have no vices have plaguey few virtues.

To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.

To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.