The law has no power over heroes.
It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it.
Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.
Truth is not always injured by fiction.
When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist.
When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.