Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones reprehend..
The little vices of the great must needs be accounted very great..
If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christ….
Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice..
Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves..
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health..
We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead..
The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always estee….
When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so..
I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices..
IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices..
I don't call myself a writer..
I learn a lot; what I learn cannot be expressed in words..
Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue..
We never get so near God as when we plead for others..
We must define flattery and praise; they are distinct. Trajan was encouraged to virtue by the panegyric Pliny; Tiberius became obstinate in vice from….
I'm fully aware that every time I do anything, good or bad, somebody's watching..
Is everyone as wrong about me as I am about them?.
We are called not to adjust ourselves to each other, but to adjust ourselves to God..
The coolest thing you can become is yourself..
Virtue is health, vice is sickness..