Nothing is more common than for persons to hate those whom they have injured.
Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.
Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.
The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.
No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.
A hero in one age will be a hero in another.