--WASHINGTON.
Vanity makes men ridiculous, pride odious and ambition terrible.--STEELE.
It is our own vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable to
us.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.
Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag
of its vices.--H.W. SHAW.
Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.
--MRS. JAMESON.
She neglects her heart who too closely studies her glass.--LAVATER.
Verily, every man at his best state is altogether vanity.--PSALM 39:5.
VICE.--Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that
men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.--COLTON.
The vicious obey their passions, as slaves do their masters.--DIOGENES.
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.--PLUTARCH.
Vice stings us, even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us, even in
our pains.--COLTON.
One sin another doth provoke.--SHAKESPEARE.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.--FRANKLIN.
Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in
this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and
the other world.--DR. WATTS.
He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice
should go a little farther, and try to plant in a virtue in its place,
otherwise he will have his labor to renew.--COLTON.
Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones reprehend.
--PUBLIUS SYRUS.
This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man.
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