“Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.”
“Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.”
“Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.”
“Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.”
“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”
“Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.”