“We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.”

Variant: We are punished by our sins not for them.
Source: Love, Life and Work
Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 12
in The Note Book, Kessinger Publishing (reprint 1998)
Context: If you err it is not for me to punish you. We are punished by our sins not for them.

As quoted in Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists‎ (2007) by James Geary, p. 39

Source: Fight Club

Aiel on the Three Fold Land
(15 November 1990)

Letter to the Earl of Leicester (15 October 1586) on Mary, Queen of Scots, quoted in John Cooper, The Queen's Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I (2011), pp. 226–227

Source: The Moving Finger

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Commonwealth v. Kennedy, 170 Mass. 18, 20 (1897) (opinion of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts).
1890s