Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.
The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.
An excuse is a lie guarded.
Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.