We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves.
Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow.
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.