The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.

Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed.

The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.