My hope, my heaven, my trust must be, My gentle guide, in following thee.

The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of small consequence, but in enlarging, improving and correcting the information you possess by the authority of others.

There are those to whom a sense of religion has come in storm and tempest; there are those whom it has summoned amid scenes of revelry and idle vanity; there are those, too, who have heard its "still small voice" amid rural leisure and placid retirement. But perhaps the knowledge which causeth not to err is most frequently impressed upon the mind during the season of affliction.

My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.

The lover's pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the flower its perfume, when the willing hand can reach it too easily. There must be doubt; there must be difficulty and danger.

Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.

I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.