The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.

Besides, Rose Bradwardine, beautiful and amiable as we have described her, had not precisely the sort of beauty or merit which captivates a romantic imagination in early youth. She was too frank, too confiding, too kind; amiable qualities, undoubtedly, but destructive of the marvellous, with which a youth of imagination delights to dress the empress of his affections.

A few drops sprinkled on the torch of love make the flame blaze the brighter.

Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd.

Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.

Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief.

Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?