Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.
It is more important to detect corruption than fiction.
No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.
Whatever is done by design is always overdone.
When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.
What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.