Jane Porter Quotes

His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing, yet avoided.

There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.

Guilt is glorious when it's well earned.

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

I have a very clear conscience.

I'm not saying I'm perfect. But I'm someone who analyses and reflects on what I do, whether it's in keeping with the ethics that I talk about in public. That's how I've been all my life.

I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself.

May we be as severe with ourselves over our own subtle sins as we are with the vile sins we condemn in others

It's your own conscience That is gonna remind you That it's your heart and nobody else's That is gonna judge.

We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!

A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.

The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

Conscience is its own readiest accuser.

I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it. I stand in awe of my own opinion. The secret demerits of which we alone, perhaps, are conscious, are often more difficult to bear than those which have been publicly censured in us, and thus in some degree atoned for.

Before thou reprehend another, take heed thou art not culpable in what thou goest about to reprehend. He that cleanses a blot with blotted fingers makes a greater blur.

I'm trying to think of what I'm ashamed of. But, damn, I don't really have any shame.

I do nothing I regret, man, because I try to do nothing abominable. As long as there is not an abomination, there is nothing to regret, you understand?

In my heart, I never called one wrong.

Everyone performs bad actions... A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions.

There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting in his soul.