It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it.
The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.
When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.
Truth is not always injured by fiction.
In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.
When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist.