Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself.

If anybody would make me the greatest king that ever lived, with palaces, and gardens and fine dinners, and wine, and coaches, and beautiful clothes, and hundreds of servants, on condition that I would not read books, I would not be a king.

We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point, that we have seen our best days. But so said all before us, and with just as much apparent reason.

I am always nearest to myself," says the Latin proverb.

Power, safely defied, touches its downfall.

In perseverance, in self command, in forethought, in all virtues which conduce to success in life, the Scots have never been surpassed.