My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.

For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of Lochinvar.

He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.

Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.

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.