Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.

I am an optimist unrepentant and militant. After all in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance but finding that they will read he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

Put a bridle on thy tongue set a guard before thy lips lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance but in silence is safety.

Bad men are full of repentance.

As to marriage or celibacy let a man take which course he will he will be sure to repent.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

What is past is past there is a future left to all men who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness not to sin offers only punishment.