“A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution.”

“Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.”

“I once heard that the French don't prosecute people who commit crimes of passion twenty minutes after waking.”

“And that is a crime I would gladly commit every day for the rest of my days," he said "Punish me how you will. I love her.”

“there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mouth… there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations”

“The angel told her, An honest man who committed a crime, you have no idea how many honest men have committed crimes, their crimes are countless, and contrary to popular belief these are the only crimes that cannot be forgiven.”