When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.
In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.
It is more important to detect corruption than fiction.
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.
No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.