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

There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance.

The duties of religion, sincerely and regularly performed, will always be sufficient to exalt the meanest and to exercise the highest understanding.

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim, though, were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim.

Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame