The two women exchanged the type of glance women use when there is no knife handy.

Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.

I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

Oh, don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know, [George] Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.