For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

Decency, not to dare to do that in public which it is decent enough to do in private.

There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.

He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.

My opinion is that we must lend ourselves to others and give ourselves only to ourselves. If my will happened to be prone to mortgage and attach itself, I would not last: I am too tender, both by nature and by practice.

I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

No man profiteth but by the loss of others.