The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction.
Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness.
Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings; compassion, in the first instance, is good for both; I have known it to bring compunction when nothing else would.
I can wholeheartedly apologize for not being at all sorry. And it really is the least I can do.
Once you've seen certain things, the moral compunction drives you to act.
And I felt sorry, and I have felt bad about what happened.
