Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of old called it the very sinews of discretion.
The tribunal of conscience exists independent of edicts and decrees.