My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live in great amity with me, and friendship of each other.

When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.

There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.

Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.

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

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Observation is an old man's memory.