Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.
What love commences can be finished by God alone.
Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.
Morality is truth in full bloom.
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.