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.

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice

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

In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer.

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

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