I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.

Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry.... Friendship... had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me - God of love only knows where.

Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain.

My heart is sair-I dare na tell, My heart is sair for Somebody.

Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven.

The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation.

Oatcakes are a delicate relish when eaten warm with ale.