We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none.
Whatever is done by design is always overdone.
The law has no power over heroes.
What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.
When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist.
The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.