Charlotte Lennox
Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.Collection: Sometimes
There is no logic like the logic of the heart.Collection: Heart
No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.Collection: Envy
It is more important to detect corruption than fiction.Collection: Important
Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.Collection: Prejudice
In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.Collection: Forgiveness
A hero in one age will be a hero in another.Collection: Hero
Truth is not always injured by fiction.Collection: Fiction
The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.Collection: Inspirational
What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.Collection: Vanity
Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.Collection: Years
Whatever is done by design is always overdone.Collection: Design
When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.Collection: Innocence
The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination.Collection: Motivation
Nothing is more common than for persons to hate those whom they have injured.Collection: Hate
We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none.Collection: Truth
When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist.Collection: Action
It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it.Collection: Justice
The law has no power over heroes.Collection: Hero
The life of a good man is a continual prayer.Collection: Prayer