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

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.

One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

'Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him.

I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable; because reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain; and beyond our knowledge we cannot do either.