A hero in one age will be a hero in another.
Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.
It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it.
No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.
The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.
We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none.