25 Quotes by Charlotte Lennox

It is more important to detect corruption than fiction.

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.

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

The life of a good man is a continual prayer.

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

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

Truth is not always injured by fiction.

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