There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

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

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.

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.

Besides, Rose Bradwardine, beautiful and amiable as we have described her, had not precisely the sort of beauty or merit which captivates a romantic imagination in early youth. She was too frank, too confiding, too kind; amiable qualities, undoubtedly, but destructive of the marvellous, with which a youth of imagination delights to dress the empress of his affections.

Mankind — the race would perish did they cease to aid each other.

Where, where was Roderick then? One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men.