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.
Truth is not always injured by fiction.
Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.
Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.
When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.