I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who suppose that they can better dispense with the possession of money, than resign their time and faculties to the labour necessary to acquire it.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.

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!

For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.

Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.