Who said “Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!”?

“Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards -- who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.”

“He who hates vice hates men.”

“Every vice has its excuse ready.”

“Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.”

“The vices of some men are magnificent.”

“Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.”

“If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.”

“Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.”

“It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.”

“Minerva House was ''a finishing establishment for young ladies,'' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.”

“I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.”