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

The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind.

Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.

When the original is well chosen and judiciously copied, the imitator often arrives at excellence which he could never have attained without direction; for few are formed with abilities to discover new possibilities of excellence, and to distinguish themselves by means never tried before.

The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.

He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.

There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance.