Then there is the usual scene when lovers are excited with each other, quarrels, entreaties, reproaches, and then fondling reconcilement.

Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.

Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.

Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.

Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.

So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood; and both are exaggerated by posterity.

Conspicuous by his absence.