We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.

Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet