More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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 nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
Custom adapts itself to expediency.
The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.