A hero in one age will be a hero in another.
What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.
Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.
It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it.
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.