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

And forever goodbye! Forever! Oh, Sir, can you imagine how dreadful this cruel word sounds when one loves?

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

Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity?

Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.

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.

What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled?