Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.

Books, the children of the brain.

Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.

My Lawyer being practiced almost from his Cradle in defending Falsehood; is quite out of his Element when he would be an Advocate for Justice, which as an Office unnatural, he always attempts with great Awkwardness if not with Ill-will.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

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