When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

To be prejudiced is always to be weak

The finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground.

Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.

This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.

...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.

Philosophers there are who try to make themselves believe that this life is happy; but they believe it only while they are saying it, and never yet produced conviction in a single mind.