Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime's by action dignified
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.
If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.
Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
I believe that I am God's exact intention. It's that balance of virtue and vice.
Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.
If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being, it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself, since I am a human being too.
Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself.
They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.
