It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces.

I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.

"Lambe them, lads! lambe them!" a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

Besides, Rose Bradwardine, beautiful and amiable as we have described her, had not precisely the sort of beauty or merit which captivates a romantic imagination in early youth. She was too frank, too confiding, too kind; amiable qualities, undoubtedly, but destructive of the marvellous, with which a youth of imagination delights to dress the empress of his affections.

Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.

Dear to me is my bonnie white steed; Oft has he helped me at pinch of need.