There is no restraining men’s tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.—­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.—­Chapin.

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As, to be hated, needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 

          
                          —­Pope.

Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.—­Franklin.

Virtue.—­Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.—­HELVETIUS.

Virtue alone is sweet society,
It keeps the key to all heroic hearts,
And opens you a welcome in them all. 

          
                          —­Emerson.

The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his every-day conduct.—­Pascal.

Virtue consisteth of three parts,—­temperance, fortitude, and justice.—­Epicurus.

Virtue maketh men on the earth famous, in their graves illustrious, in the heavens immortal.—­Child.

When we pray for any virtue, we should cultivate the virtue as well as pray for it; the form of your prayers should be the rule of your life.—­Jeremy Taylor.