We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none.
A hero in one age will be a hero in another.
Whatever is done by design is always overdone.
The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.
It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it.
Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.