There are heroes of wickedness, as there are of goodness.

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.

It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

Some crimes get honor and renown by being committed with more pomp, by a greater number, and in a higher degree of wickedness thanothers. Hence it is that public robberies, plunderings, and sackings have been looked upon as excellencies and noble achievements, and the seizing of whole countries, however unjustly and barbarously, is dignified with the glorious name of gaining conquests.