No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
The ancestor of every action is a thought… Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.
The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child