It is credulity, and not conviction.

I have not said any thing, nor can any thing be said, of a nature to produce real conviction.

The affair is not an affair of reasoning, but of experience.

He would probably observe in reply, what you say may be very true with regard to yourself and many other good men, but for my own part I feel very differently upon the subject.

I have very frequently taken up a book and almost as frequently gone to sleep over it; but when I pass an evening with a gay party, or a pretty woman, I feel alive, and in spirits, and truly enjoy my existence.
Under such circumstances, reasoning and arguments are not instruments from which success can be expected.