It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies.
'Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him.
No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.