Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it.

One is punished best for one's virtues.

No deed gets undone because it is regretted, no more than because it is forgiven or atoned for.

Faith is the mightiest force that man has at his command. It impels human beings to greatness in thought and word and deed.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.