How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.
Kitchen Physic is the best Physic.
Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.
Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and humour.
If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels.