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

I have seen her and sister cry over a book for an hour together, and they said, they liked the book the better the more it made them cry.

Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture.

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

Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities.

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

Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po.