All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

If there is sin against life, it consists… in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

Few love to hear the sins they love to act.

The sinning is the best part of repentance.

We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.

She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.