A man who always talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you.

Norway, too, has noble prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England!

There are occasions on which all apology is rudeness.

A man who always talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you.

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.