Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life.

I never knew any man cured of inattention.

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

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