Posterity will pay everyone their due.

The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.

It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.

In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.

Adversity deprives us of our judgment.

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.

Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.