A rusted nail, placed near the faithful compass, Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

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

It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.

Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendor, can never confer real happiness; the evil consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the malefactor; while the paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.

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

Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or of good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute point of fashionable etiquette.