He that jokes confesses.

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

Confess you were wrong yesterday; it will show you are wise today.

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

He who denies all, confesses all.

To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.

Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good.

A wise man admits his weaknesses. I'd admit mine if I had any.