Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.
He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.
Words are daughters of earth but ideas are sons of heaven.
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotch man happy!
Suspicion is very often a useless pain.