Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what they help distribute to the public; by which means a falsehood once received from a famed writer becomes traditional to posterity.
Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
To so perverse a sex all grace is vain.
We by art unteach what Nature taught.