The jests of the rich are ever successful.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.

What cities, as great as this, have... promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The sorrowful traveller wanders over the awful ruins of others... Here stood their citadel, but now grown over with weeds; there their senate-house, but now the haunt of every noxious reptile; temples and theatres stood here, now only an undistinguished heap of ruins.

And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.

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