Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we're so fond of it.
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.
Who is so deaf or so blind as he that willfully will neither hear nor see?
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.