Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

He that follows the advice of reason has a mind that is elevated above the reach of injury; that sits above the clouds, in a calm and quiet ether, and with a brave indifferency hears the rolling thunders grumble and burst under his feet.

Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.

Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?

The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?

Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.