Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience.
No man becomes bad all at once.
She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.
Honesty's praised, then left to freeze.
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.
Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.