Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
The maxims of men reveal their characters.
The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.
No one is more liable to make mistakes than he who acts only on reflexion.
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
Men are not to be judged by what they do not know, but by what they know, and by the manner in which they know it.