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

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

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

The end of government is the happiness of the people.

Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical.

As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.

Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.