If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.
A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within.
All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.