The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination.
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.
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.