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

Poetry cannot be translation

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the contemplative faculties. He who easily comprehends all that is before him, and soon exhausts any single subject, is always eager for new inquiries; and in proportion as the intellectual eye takes in a wider prospect, it must be gratified with variety, by more rapid flights and bolder excursions.

Providence has fixed the limits of human enjoyment by immovable boundaries, and has set different gratifications at such a distance from each other, that no art or power can bring them together. This great law it is the business of every rational being to understand, that life may not pass away in an attempt to make contradictions consistent, to combine opposite qualities, and to unite things which the nature of their being must always keep asunder.

You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.