I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world. - Jonathan Swift

I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

You cannot reason a person out of a position he did not reason himself into in the first place.

"And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.