Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest.
The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.
Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.
How much easier is it to be generous than just.
The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.
Oppression is more easily endured than insult.