Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.
Truth is not always injured by fiction.
There is no logic like the logic of the heart.
What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.
In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.
Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.