Repentance is accepted remorse.

In this world of change, nothing which comes stays, and nothing which goes is lost.

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.

Repentance is accepted remorse.

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

Youth should be a savings bank.

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

Resignation is putting God between ourselves and our troubles.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.

Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

It really is a day job, and it also seems to have virtually disappeared-with no remorse, really. It gives me more time to paint.

Remorse is the pain of sin.

Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right?

I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked?

Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.

Repentance is accepted remorse.

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.

I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

I cannot show remorse because I do not believe I am guilty.

When I think of the person that I thought was Bill Clinton, I think he had genuine remorse. When I think of the person that I now see is 100 percent politician, I think he's sorry he got caught.

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.

One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.

According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.

I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.