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

A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.

Little things are great to little men.

In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right.

The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.

Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.

Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as she robs the senses of every pleasure, equips imag-ination in the spoil?