What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.

A hero in one age will be a hero in another.

When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist.

In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.

There is no logic like the logic of the heart.

Whatever is done by design is always overdone.

It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it.