He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.
A college joke to cure the dumps.
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.