Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.

There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.

The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.

Despair swallows up cowardice.

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.