TEMPERAMENT

It is my connviction that a person's temperament is a law, an iron law, and has to be obeyed, no matter who disapproves; manifestly, as it seems to me temperament is a law of God and is supreme and takes precedence of all human laws. It is my conviction that each and every human law that exists has one distinct purpose and intention and only one: to oppose itself to a law of God and defeat it, degrade it, deride it and trample upon it.
- Mark Twain's Autobiography