No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.
Life would be pretty boring if we didn't have vices.
I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.
I've been lucky enough to stand on both poles, but the place that seemed the remotest to me was Butugychag, a former gulag in Siberia. It is completely cut off from the rest of the world.
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
Solitude is un-American.
All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much.
In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.