We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.

I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.

Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion?

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

Whom we fear more than love, we are not far from hating.

Air and manners are more expressive than words.