'Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him.
She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
We have an intuitive sense of our duty.
Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.
In all assemblies, though you wedge them ever so close, we may observe this peculiar property, that over their heads there is room enough; but how to reach it is the difficult point. To this end the philosopher's way in all ages has been by erecting certain edifices in the air.