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

A few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron.

The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.

The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines in his poems.

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.

A dominant religion is never ascetic.

People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.