If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels.
Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
Don't set your wit against a child.
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence.