Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring p modestly around read more

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.

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.

And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.

O, what a mansion have those vices got
Which for their habitation chose out thee,
Where beauty's read more

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!

Saint Augustine! well hast thou said,
That of our vices we can frame
A ladder, if we read more

Saint Augustine! well hast thou said,
That of our vices we can frame
A ladder, if we will but tread
Beneath our feet each deed of shame.

To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.

To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.

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

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

The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.

The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we despise all
those who have not a single read more

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we despise all
those who have not a single virtue.