How few of his friends' houses would a man choose to be at when he is sick.

A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.

There are, indeed, few kinds of composition from which an author, however learned or ingenious, can hope a long continuance of fame.

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

In civilized society external advantages make us more respected. A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one. You may analyze this and say, What is there in it? But that will avail you nothing, for it is a part of a general system.

Norway, too, has noble prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England!

All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.