Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
                                                                                                                           Aristotle.

This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought
Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land
Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
                                                                    Aristophanes, Wasps, 422 B.C.