1.
In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.
Charlotte Lennox
2.
What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.
Charlotte Lennox
3.
A hero in one age will be a hero in another.
Charlotte Lennox
4.
When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.
Charlotte Lennox
5.
We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none.
Charlotte Lennox
6.
The life of a good man is a continual prayer.
Charlotte Lennox
7.
No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.
Charlotte Lennox
8.
There is no logic like the logic of the heart.
Charlotte Lennox
9.
It is more important to detect corruption than fiction.
Charlotte Lennox
10.
Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.
Charlotte Lennox
11.
Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.
Charlotte Lennox
12.
The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.
Charlotte Lennox
13.
The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination.
Charlotte Lennox
14.
Whatever is done by design is always overdone.
Charlotte Lennox
15.
Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.
Charlotte Lennox
16.
Nothing is more common than for persons to hate those whom they have injured.
Charlotte Lennox
17.
Truth is not always injured by fiction.
Charlotte Lennox
18.
The law has no power over heroes.
Charlotte Lennox
19.
It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it.
Charlotte Lennox
20.
When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist.
Charlotte Lennox
