Samuel Butler Quotes About Virtue
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
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