I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.

A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.

Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.

The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.

Oh stay! oh stay! Joy so seldom weaves a chain Like this to-night, that oh 't is pain To break its links so soon.

Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.