Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain.

All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.

So long as we stand in need of a benefit, there is nothing dearer to us; nor anything cheaper when we have received it.

Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.

Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain.

Some people are all quality; you would think they are made up of nothing but title and genealogy. The stamp of dignity defaces in them the very character of humanity and transports them to such a degree of haughtiness that they reckon it below themselves to exercise either good nature or good manners.

If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.