Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy
Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them.
Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?
I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.