God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.

A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.

Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.

come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last

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!

He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes.

Hurry no man's cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself