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

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.

The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being.

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.