But in religion the law is written, and inflexible, never to do evil.

And this law, my child, is right: for otherwise, if we commit a smaller evil, to procure a greater good, certain guilt would be thus incurred, in expectation of contingent advantage.

And though the advantage should certainly follow, yet the interval between commission and advantage, which is allowed to be guilty, may be that in which we are called away to answer for the things we have done, and the volume of human actions is closed for ever.
But I interrupt you, my dear, go on.' 'The very next morning,' continued she, 'I found what little expectations I was to have from his sincerity.

That very morning he introduced me to two unhappy women more, whom, like me, he had deceived, but who lived in contented prostitution.

I loved him too tenderly to bear such rivals in his affections, and strove to forget my infamy in a tumult of pleasures.