Scotland by no means escaped the fate ordained for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another country of greater resources.

No man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the best histories are not those in which a little of the exaggeration of fictitious narrative is judiciously employed. Something is lost in accuracy; but much is gained in effect. The fainter lines are neglected; but the great characteristic features are imprinted on the mind forever.

Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

Re: Robert Montgomery's Poems His writing bears the same relation to poetry which a Turkey carpet bears to a picture. There are colours in the Turkey carpet out of which a picture might be made. There are words in Mr. Montgomery's writing which, when disposed in certain orders and combinations,have made, and will make again, good poetry. But, as they now stand, they seem to be put together on principle in such a manner as to give no image of anything in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth.