Virtue is power, vice is weakness; the former is knowledge, the latter ignorance.

For there is too much reason to fear, that the many vices and immoralities so common among white people;the lewdness, drunkenness, quarrelling, abusiveness, swearing, lying, pride, backbiting, overreaching, idleness, and sabbath-breaking, everywhere to be seen among us, are a great encouragement to our Negroes to do the like, and help strongly to confirm them in the habits of wickedness and impiety.

Simple and beautiful souls, they never for a moment suspected that his worst vice was sentimentalism.

If the great, positive vice of the age is covetousness, the great negative one is distrust of God; the two invariably go together as parts of a wholeone is the reverse side of the otherfor, it is not that we must not, or ought not, but that we "cannot serve God and mammon."

The vice-president of the United States shall be president of the Senate, but shall have no vote, unless they be equally divided.

The Vice was the predecessor of the clown and the fool upon the stage.

Still, as a general law, it is unquestionably true that vice is the incident of idleness; and the sphere of vice, therefore, is at the top and at the bottom of societythose being the regions in which idleness reigns.

"The vice of covetousness is a fault which enters more deeply into the soul than any other.

One might almost say that their vices are the flower of their virtues.

Vice is as truly an outcome of "nature" as virtue.

The vice of universal suffrage is the infinitesimal subdivision of personal responsibility.

Vice is but ignorance of real enjoyment.

Embittered and suspicious she had found him, noted for the carping tongue he lacked both power and inclination to bridle; and she had, against his nature, made Maudelain see that every person is at bottom lovable, and that human vices are but the stains of a traveller midway in a dusty journey; and had incited the priest no longer to do good for his soul's health, but simply for his fellow's benefit.

According to Schmidt's History of the Eastern Mongolians the cardinal vices in the Buddhist scheme are four: Lust, Indolence, Anger, and Avarice.

"Signer Vice-governatore, such is the flag under which I have the honor to serve," returned the mariner.

The vice-president is the presiding officer of the Senate, with power to vote only in case of a tie.

Vice is the deformity of man.

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

Shall we not thence learn charity, and the better understand the full meaning of some who have said that vices were virtues in excess or restraint?

"It is the portrait of one whose vices and depravity are the town's cry, and whose name coupled with that of a woman, is sufficient to sully her reputation.

The characteristic vices of the Pagan world were unchastity and fondness for the pleasures of the table.

The same great Law of Sympathy is given To Evil as to Good, and if we swell The dark account that life incurs with Heaven, 'Tis that our Vices are thy Wooers, Hell!

A Vice of a more lively Nature were a more desirable Tyrant than this Rust of the Mind, which gives a Tincture of its Nature to every Action of ones Life.

It has been observed, that vice is no proper cause of expulsion; for if the worst man in the house were always to be expelled, in time none would be left; but no man is expelled for being worst, he is expelled for being enormously bad; his conduct is compared, not with that of others, but with the rule of action.

This vice was incest.