Ambition raises a secret tumult in the soul, it inflames the mind, and puts it into a violent hurry of thought. - Joseph Addison

I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shews none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.

Is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin?

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.