Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.
The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.
There is merit without rank, but there is no rank without some merit.
The moderation of men in the most exalted fortunes is a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them so high.