Whatever is done by design is always overdone.
Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.
No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.
Truth is not always injured by fiction.
What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.
In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.