Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy.
Custom does often reason overrule.
Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence.
I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life.
It is a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend, or to live in; but to beg or to borrow, or to get a man's own, It is the very worst world that ever was known.
I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational.