Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

Repentance is accepted remorse.

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.