CHARLOTTE LENNOX

Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.

Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.

When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.

A hero in one age will be a hero in another.

Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.

What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.

It is more important to detect corruption than fiction.

The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.

The law has no power over heroes.

The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination.

The law has no power over heroes.

When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.

Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.

When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist.

The life of a good man is a continual prayer.

The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination.

We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none.

It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it.

Truth is not always injured by fiction.

The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.

Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.

What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.

In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.

Nothing is more common than for persons to hate those whom they have injured.

Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.

A hero in one age will be a hero in another.

Whatever is done by design is always overdone.

No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.

It is more important to detect corruption than fiction.