Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired

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

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

Perverseness is your whole defence.

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

Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

There's none so blind as they that won't see.