Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity?
Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.
Wrinkles on the brow are the imprints of exploits.
Often it is fatal to live too long.
The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.