How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!
Of all the ingenious mistakes into which erring man has fallen, perhaps none have been so pernicious in their consequences, or have brought so many evils into the world, as the popular opinion that the way of the transgressor is pleasant and easy.
True repentance also involves reform.
Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
There is one court whose findings are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast.