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

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still hold their heads among human beings?

A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth.

As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice.

Where there is no difficulty there is no praise.

A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation can only be such as whether the mutton should be boiled or roasted, and probably a dispute about that.

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.