The lover's pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the flower its perfume, when the willing hand can reach it too easily. There must be doubt; there must be difficulty and danger.

Chess is a sad waste of brains.

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.

Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet