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O, what a mansion have those vices got Which for their habitation chose out thee, Where beauty's veil doth cover every blot And all things turns to fair that eyes can see!

Many without punishment, none without sin.

The willing contemplation of vice is vice.

It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.

The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.

Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.

If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us.

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.

There will be vice as long as there are men.

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.

Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring p modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who's the benefactor of the whole city.

If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it.

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.