Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, baneful, when habitually and constantly resorted to, but of most blessed power in those moments of pain and of langour, when the whole head is sore, and the whole heart sick. If those who rail indiscriminately at this species of composition, were to consider the quantity of actual pleasure it produces, and the much greater proportion of real sorrow and distress which it alleviates, their philanthropy ought to moderate their critical pride, or religious intolerance.

Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.

Every hour has its end.

A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.

Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.

He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.

Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?