To err is human; to forgive, divine.

A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.

To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.

At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it; but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.

It is sure the hardest science to forget!

Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.

Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.