Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

When you accusingly point at someone, three fingers always point back at you."

There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them.

The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.

For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?