Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretenses to foretell events

Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit, Will condescend to take a bit