A lie is an excuse guarded

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.

Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.