"Custom is our nature."

"Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would be to be a madman of another kind of madness."

"The will is one of the chief organs of belief, not because it creates belief, but because things are either true or false according to the side on which we look at them."

"The last act is bloody, however fine the rest of the play."

"We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have discovered ourselves than by those found by others."