An intelligent person should put money in the beginning, but not in heart

Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness.

Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors.

Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.

There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded, that something very useful and profound is couched underneath; and again, that whatever word or sentence is printed in a different character, shall be judged to contain something extraordinary either or wit of sublime.

If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels.

Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart.