He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance.

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

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?

I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

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.