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

He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat.

A crime is a crime irrespective of the birth marks of the criminal.

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

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

It is an overflowing love, which seeks nothing in return. Theologians would say that it is the love of God operating in the human heart. And when one rises to love on this level, he is able to love the person who does the evil deed, while hating the deed that the person does.