Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is displayed? The shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more than equal to that task.

Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.

Woman is not made to be the admiration of everybody , but the happiness of one.

I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.

Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.