The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.