Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!

Mystery has great charms for womanhood.

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.

Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye 're sleeping.

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.

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.