When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company.

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

Love, like virtue, is its own reward.

No man is worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.

True virtue, wheresoever it moves, still carries an intrinsic worth about it.

You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so.

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals