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

Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.