If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !
Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.
A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.