Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.

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

A thousand fearful images and dire suggestions glance along the mind when it is moody and discontented with itself. Command them to stand and show themselves, and you presently assert the power of reason over imagination.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Mankind — the race would perish did they cease to aid each other.

Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.

Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.