Woman's faith and woman's trust, Write the characters in dust.

Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.

A Finnan haddock has a relish of a peculiar and delicate flavour, inimitable on any other coast than that of Aberdeenshire. Some of our Edinburgh philosophers tried to produce their equal in vain. I was one of a party at dinner where the philosophical haddocks were placed in competition with the genuine Finnan fish. These were served round without distinguishing whence they came; but only one gentleman out of twelve present espoused the cause of philosophy.

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?