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.
Truth is not always injured by fiction.
When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist.
The law has no power over heroes.
What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.