They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.

Now, to be properly enjoyed, a walking tour should be gone upon alone.... Freedom is of the essence, because you should be able to stop and go on and follow this way or that as the freak takes you.... There should be no cackle of voices at your elbow to jar on the meditative silence of the morning.

The mark of a Scot of all classes [is that] he ... remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there burns alive in him a sense of identity with the dead even to the twentieth generation.

Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in this world of pickings and caresses is, perhaps, the business of their lives.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?

We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.