Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation.

Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.

The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected; and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an individual weight of calumny will be super-added.

The mere power of saving what is already in our hands must be of easy acquisition to every mind; and as the example of Lord Bacon may show that the highest intellect cannot safely neglect it, a thousand instances every day prove that the humblest may practise it with success.

The relief of enemies has a tendency to unite mankind in fraternal affection.

No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.