Look back, and smile on perils past.
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.