Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Once a coxcomb, always a coxcomb.

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

Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.

Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.