It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.

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

The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.

You will, I trust, resemble a forest plant, which has indeed, by some accident, been brought up in the greenhouse, and thus rendered delicate and effeminate, but which regains its native firmness and tenacity, when exposed for a season to the winter air.

A Finnan haddock has a relish of a peculiar and delicate flavour, inimitable on any other coast than that of Aberdeenshire. Some of our Edinburgh philosophers tried to produce their equal in vain. I was one of a party at dinner where the philosophical haddocks were placed in competition with the genuine Finnan fish. These were served round without distinguishing whence they came; but only one gentleman out of twelve present espoused the cause of philosophy.

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

Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.