In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.