You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime

The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.