When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist.

What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.

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

Whatever is done by design is always overdone.

When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.

Nothing is more common than for persons to hate those whom they have injured.

Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.