Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.

Honesty's the best policy.

Whoever is ignorant is vulgar.

What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?

She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.

Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.

God bears with the wicked, but not forever.