Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.

A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.

To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.

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

It is likewise to be observed that this society hath a peculiar chant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal can understand, and wherein all their laws are written, which they take special care to multiply.

Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.