It is its natural manure. And the day will come, when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as His Father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva, in the brain of Jupiter. Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of visdom. I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.