Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.
What is the life of a man more than the life of a lamb, or any guiltless animal?
Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence.
That undefined and mingled hum, Voice of the desert never dumb!
The daisy is fair, the day-lily rare, The bud o' the rose as sweet as it's bonnie.
If a body could just find oot the exac' proper proportion and quantity that ought to be drunk every day, and keep to that, I verily trow that he might leeve for ever, without dying at a', and that doctors and kirkyards would og oot o' fashion.