I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his country's laws can overcome all private fear, resentment, solicitation, and even pity itself.

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.

Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.

Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.

It is observed by Cicero, that men of the greatest and most shining parts are most actuated by ambition.

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.