When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.

In man's most dark extremity Oft succour dawns from Heaven.

Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye 're sleeping.

For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of Lochinvar.