The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.