Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.

The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.

We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none.

It is more important to detect corruption than fiction.

There is no logic like the logic of the heart.

Whatever is done by design is always overdone.

A hero in one age will be a hero in another.