To err is nature, to rectify error is glory.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.

Men's minds are as variant as their faces, and, where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to be imputed to them as a crime, than the appearance of the latter; for both, being the work of nature, are alike unavoidable.

To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.