There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded, that something very useful and profound is couched underneath; and again, that whatever word or sentence is printed in a different character, shall be judged to contain something extraordinary either or wit of sublime.

Observation is an old man's memory.

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

"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.