Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance.

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.