The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.

Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which, at the time of regular payment, will be missed and regretted.

Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed.