With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.
Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
Wealth accumulates, and men decay.
Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.
A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year.