Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.

Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.

The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence.

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.

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