Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.

...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature, and able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active imagination; a scholar with great brilliance of wit; a wit who, in the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious zeal.

The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.

I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.

Whatever is proposed, it is much easier to find reasons for rejecting than embracing.

Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.

His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.