Still are the thoughts to memory dear.

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.

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

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

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

That day of wrath, that dreadful day. When heaven and earth shall pass away.

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.