Quotes by Booth, William

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender. >>

A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it >>

To get a man soundly saved it is not enough to put on him a pair of ne >>

Quotations about Vice

Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it th >>

He who hates vice hates men. >>

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice. >>

There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterately dishonest that theft is to them a master passion. When a human being has reached that stage, there is only one course that can be rationally pursued. Sorrowfully, but remorselessly, it must be recognized that he has become lunatic, morally demented, incapable of self-government, and that upon him, therefore, must be passed the sentence of permanent seclusion from a world in which he is not fit to be at large.

Booth, William