Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.