If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

No man is without some quality, by the due application of which he might deserve well of the world; and whoever he be that has but little in his power should be in haste to do that little, lest he be confounded with him that can do nothing.

Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotch man happy!