Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.
The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.
Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.
Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.