It 's guid to be merry and wise, It 's guid to be honest and true, It 's guid to support Caledonia's cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.

God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow's head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.

If there 's a hole in a' your coats, I rede ye tent it; A chiel 's amang ye takin' notes, And, faith, he 'll prent it.

I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

'T is sweeter for thee despairing Than aught in the world beside,-Jessy!

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