Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.
I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself.
A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.
Happy season of childhood! Kind Nature, that art to all a bountiful mother; that visitest the poor man's hut With auroral radiance; and for thy nursling hast provided a soft swathing of love and infinite hope wherein he waxes and slumbers, danced round by sweetest dreams!