Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one

The only reward of virtue is virtue