And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.

Were I to be angry at men being fools, I could here find ample room for declamation; but, alas! I have been a fool myself; and why should I be angry with them for being something so natural to every child of humanity?

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.