Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain.
There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point.
The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.
There is no opposing brutal force to the stratagems of human reason.
All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.
Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man.