“What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much - and like so well?”
“It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do.”
“What is heavy? so asks the spirit that would bear much, and then kneels down like the camel, and wants to be well laden.”
“Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.”
“You are so proud of your intelligence," said the master. "You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.”
“There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult to avoid repeating.”