“Then, all censure of a man's self is oblique praise.”

Source: The Summing Up (1938), p. 223

No. 491
Aphorisms on Man (1788)

Prologue at the Opening of Drury Lane Theatre (1747)

Diary (14 July 1889)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)

Source: Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary

Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)

No. 101 (26 June 1711), this has sometimes been quoted as "It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age".
The Spectator (1711–1714)
Context: If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve. In a word, the man in a high post is never regarded with an indifferent eye, but always considered as a friend or an enemy. For this reason persons in great stations have seldom their true characters drawn till several years after their deaths. Their personal friendships and enmities must cease, and the parties they were engaged in be at an end, before their faults or their virtues can have justice done them. When writers have the least opportunity of knowing the truth, they are in the best disposition to tell it.
It is therefore the privilege of posterity to adjust the characters of illustrious persons, and to set matters right between those antagonists who by their rivalry for greatness divided a whole age into factions.

Section 4
Religio Medici (1643), Part II

Source: Elegies, Lines 169-170, as translated by Dorothea Wender.