Small crimes always precedes great ones.

This innocence begins to weigh me down.

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

How admirable and beautiful is the simplicity of the Evangelists! They never speak injuriously of the enemies of Jesus Christ, of His judges, nor of His executioners. They report the facts without a single reflection. They comment neither on their Master's mildness when He was smitten, nor on His constancy in the hour of His ignominious death, which they thus describe: "And they crucified Jesus.

Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?

I felt for my crime a just terror; I looked on my life with hate, and my passion with horror.

Extreme justice is often injustice.