To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

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!

As long as one lives he will have need of repentance.

We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.

He that can swim needs not despair to fly; to swim is to fly in a grosser fluid, and to fly is to swim in a subtler. We are only to proportion our power of resistance to the different density of matter through which we are to pass. You will be necessarily upborne by the air if you can renew any impulse upon it faster than the air can recede from the pressure.

They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.