Genius involves both envy and calumny.

What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.

Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.

Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.

The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.