Who said “Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will…”?

“I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.”

“One of the misfortunes of our time is, that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.”

“The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone.”

“Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the true motives of their hearts in the specious cloak of sociableness, and their concern for the public good, they are in hopes of concealing their filthy appetites and the deformity of their desires.”

“Shame is worse than death.”

“To innovate is not to reform.”

“Tyrants seldom want pretexts.”

“Ambition can creep as well as soar.”

“Custom reconciles us to everything.”

“Laws, like houses, lean on one another.”

“You can never plan the future by the past.”