Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

They never sought in vain that sought the Lord alright!

Burns' Hog-Weighing Method: (1) Get a perfectly symmetrical plank and balance it across a sawhorse. (2) Put the hog on one end of the plank. (3) Pile rocks on the other end until the plank is again perfectly balanced. (4) Carefully guess the weight of the rocks.

Some wee short hour ayont the twal.

Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever . . .

I'm truly sorry man's dominion has broken Nature's social union.

Painters and poets have liberty to lie.