A departure from the truth was hardly ever known to be a single one.
The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.
Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.
People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.