When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.
What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.
It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it.
A hero in one age will be a hero in another.
Whatever is done by design is always overdone.
There is no logic like the logic of the heart.