Gravity is the best cloak for sin in all countries.

It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.

For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.

It is with jealousy as with the gout. When such distempers are in the blood, there is never any security against their breaking out, and that often on the slightest occasions, and when least suspected.

A good conscience is never lawless in the worst regulated state, and will provide those laws for itself which the neglect of legislators had forgotten to supply.

Some general officers should pay a stricter regard to truth than to call the depopulating other countries the service of their own.

The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.