Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures

Those who are faithless know the pleasures of love; it is the faithful who know love's tragedies.

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution

A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.

What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. "Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.

Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.