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O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not! The best may err, but you are good.

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

Whoever . . . prefers the service of princes before his duty to his Creator, will be sure, early or late, to repent in vain.

To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent!

When prodigals return great things are done.

I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand drachmae.

When iron scourge, and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best.

Woman, amends may never come to late.

Restore to God His due in tithe and time; A tithe purloin'd cankers the whole estate.

Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.

He comes never late who comes repentant.

God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze, It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun, And light the wandering out of stony ways.

When the scourge Inexorable, and the torturing hour Calls us to penance.

He used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he had trusted a woman with a secret; the second that he had gone by sea when he might have gone by land; and the third, that had passed one day without having a will by him.

The dream is short, repentance long.

But with the morning cool repentance came.

It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.

God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.

What then? What rests? Try what repentance can. What can it not? Yet what can it when one cannot repent? O wretched state? O bosom black as death! O limed soul, that struggling to be free Art more engaged!

Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking. I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no strength to repent.