Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.
Strict law is often great injustice.
No one dances sober, unless he is insane.
It is pleasant to recall past troubles.
What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!
Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?