My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely.
If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance.
He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.
In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.
