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

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

But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.

Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.

Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it.

Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.

The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.