Look at a gown of gold, and you will at least get a sleeve of it.

Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.

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.

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

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

O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.