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.

If there's another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.

Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie!

Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your gory bed, Or to victory! Now 's the day and now 's the hour; See the front o' battle lour.

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

Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approachesTam maun ride; That hour, o'night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hourTam mounts his beast in.

Oatcakes are a delicate relish when eaten warm with ale.