Repentance is accepted remorse.

We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.

The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it.

Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all.

Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to hide her sole treasure, her tears!

Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.

Time is the shower of Danae; each drop is golden.