Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood.

What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please.

It is observed of gold, by an old epigrammatist, that to have it is to be in fear, and to want it is to be in sorrow.

All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

Life is barren enough surely with all her trappings; let us be therefore cautious of how we strip her.

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

Gratitude is a species of justice.