Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.
What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.
No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.
The law has no power over heroes.
When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.
It is more important to detect corruption than fiction.