Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God.
Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.
Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.
When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.
The State not seldom tolerates a comparatively great evil to keep out millions of lesser ills and inconveniences which otherwise would be inevitable and without remedy.
Rarely do they appear great before their valets.