If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.
Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.