The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of small consequence, but in enlarging, improving and correcting the information you possess by the authority of others.

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

Woman's faith and woman's trust, Write the characters in dust.

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.

Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.

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