A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.
Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.
It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.
The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.
In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private.
The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.