And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.

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.

God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.

Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er.

In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster.

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

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.