Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.
The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.
Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.
If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.