When we take a slight survey of the surface of our globe a thousand objects offer themselves which, though long known, yet still demand our curiosity.

The Europeans are themselves blind who describe fortune without sight. No first-rate beauty ever had finer eyes, or saw more clearly. They who have no other trade but seeking their fortune need never hope to find her; coquette-like, she flies from her close pursuers, and at last fixes on the plodding mechanic who stays at home and minds his business.

The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.

There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

Measures, not men, have always been my mark.

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