Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway

As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind.

How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!

Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience. [Lat., Exemplo quodcumque malo committitur, ipsi Displicet auctori. Prima est haec ultio, quod se Judice nemo nocens absolvitur.]

Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed. [Lat., In ipsa dubitatione facinus inest, etiamsi ad id non pervererint.]