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

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances.

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.