Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill-returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of the mankind, from where he has received no obligations and therefore such man is not fit to live.

Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

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

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.

It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.