A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.

For love is heaven and heaven is love.

...crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.

I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.

Dear to me is my bonnie white steed; Oft has he helped me at pinch of need.

Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.

A Finnan haddock has a relish of a peculiar and delicate flavour, inimitable on any other coast than that of Aberdeenshire. Some of our Edinburgh philosophers tried to produce their equal in vain. I was one of a party at dinner where the philosophical haddocks were placed in competition with the genuine Finnan fish. These were served round without distinguishing whence they came; but only one gentleman out of twelve present espoused the cause of philosophy.