Man is imperfect. At times he is more or less a hypocrite, and then fools say he is moral or immoral. I am not accusing the rich in favor of the masses. Man is the same at the top, at the bottom, in the middle.
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850)

There is no virtue if there is no immortality.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1781–1881)

Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.
John Owen (1616–1662)

The New Testament, and to a very large extent the Old, is the soul of man. You cannot criticize it. It criticizes you.
John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)

If our condition were truly happy we would not have to take our minds off thinking about it in order to make ourselves happy.
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

There is a God to punish and avenge.
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805)

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)

A man's conscience, like a warning line on a highway, tells him what he shouldn't do—but it does not keep him from doing it.
Frank A. Clark (dates uncertain)

Before God can deliver us, we must undeceive ourselves.
Augustine of Hippo (354–430)