That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Where liberty is, there is my country.
'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.
When Wine enters, out goes the Truth.
If we can sleep without dreaming, it is well that painful dreams are avoided. If, while we sleep, we can have any pleasing dreams, it is as the French say, tant gagne, so much added to the pleasure of life.