It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
Vision is seeing the invisible.
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.
Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.
For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.