Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.

Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility.

Nothing is so firmly than that which is least known.

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.

Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

God help us! it is a foolish little thing, this human life, at the best; and it is half ridiculous and half pitiful to see what importance we ascribe to it, and to its little ornaments and distinctions.