“The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.”
“Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason.”
“Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.”
“Patience is a virtue not a vice.”
“Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,And vice sometime by action dignified.”
“Money is the product of virtue, but it will not give you virtue and it will not redeem your vices”