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.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.

Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

It is not so much the being exempt from faults as the having overcome them that is an advantage to us; it being with the follies of the mind as with weeds of a field, which if destroyed and consumed upon the place where they grow, enrich and improve it more than if none had ever sprung there.

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

The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.