When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.

A rusted nail, placed near the faithful compass, Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.

In man's most dark extremity Oft succour dawns from Heaven.

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

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.