I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.

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

My hope, my heaven, my trust must be, My gentle guide, in following thee.

I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice

Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or of good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute point of fashionable etiquette.

The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal appearance. At the revolution of every five years we find ourselves another and yet the same;--there is a change of views, and no less of the light in which we regard them; a change of motives as well as of action.

It was in the beginning of the month of November, 17--, when a young English gentleman, who had just left the university of Oxford, made use of the liberty afforded him, to visit some parts of the north of England; and curiosity extended his tour into the adjacent frontier of the sister country.