The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.

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.

I will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar's frock, and all shall be well again.

Where, where was Roderick then? One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men.

O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood; Land of the mountain and the flood!

Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it.