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

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

Those who follow the banners oreason are like the well-disciplined battalions which, wearing a more sober uniform and making a less dazzling show than the light troops commanded by imagination, enjoy more safety, and even more honor, in the conflicts ohuman life.

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

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

Adversity is like the period of the rain. . . cold, comfortless, unfriendly to people and to animals; yet from that season have their birth the flower, the fruit, the date, the rose and the pomegranate.

What skilful limner e'er would choose To paint the rainbow's varying hues, Unless to mortal it were given To dip his brush in dyes of heaven?