Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.

Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

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

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

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.