We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?

Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.