It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.
Certainly, I know what to do, and when I am Vice President -- and I will be -- there will be contingency plans under different sets of situations and I tell you what, I'm not going to go out and hold a news conference about it. I'm going to put it in a safe and keep it there! Does that answer your question?
It is a great thing to know your vices.
A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice.
. . . no man can cause more grief than the one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancesters.
Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.
Beware of flattery, 'tis a weed Which oft offends the very idol--vice, Whose shrine it would perfume.
It is for you and me to show that no vice is inherent in man.
If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us.