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.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

I will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar's frock, and all shall be well again.

In the name of God!" said Gurth, "how came they prisoners? and to whom?" "Our master was too ready to fight," said the Jester, "and Athelstane was not ready enough, and no other person was ready at all.

A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.

The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?