The lowest boor may laugh on being tickled, but a man must have intelligence to be amused by wit.

Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man.

Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law, and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable.

The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.

Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.

Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.