Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word.
The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.
Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own.
Genius is independent of situation.
When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded with a frown, must have some solemn proof to pass her down.
The laws I love; the lawyers I suspect.