It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it.
When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.
Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.
A hero in one age will be a hero in another.
There is no logic like the logic of the heart.
In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.