It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.

He who fails to please in his salutation and address is at once rejected, and never obtains an opportunity of showing his latest excellences or essential qualities.

There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.

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

The imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravelled wilderness are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of parks and gardens... The phantoms which haunt a desert are want, and misery, and danger; the evils of dereliction rush upon the thoughts; man is made unwillingly acquainted with his own weakness, and meditation shows him only how little he can sustain, and how little he can perform.