Avarice is more opposite to economy than liberality.

We should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives.

Taste may change, but inclination never.

However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so when they want to attack it they pretend to find it spurious , or impute crimes to it.

On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition - which despises small interests to gain great ones.

We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.

There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words.