When a man feel the reprehension of a friend seconded by his own heart, he is easily heated into resentment.

If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur.

No man was ever great by imitation.

Every government is perpetually degenerating towards corruption, from which it must be rescued at certain periods by the resuscitation of its first principles, and the re-establishment of its original constitution.

How few of his friends' houses would a man choose to be at when he is sick.

...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 pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.