Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

In man's most dark extremity Oft succour dawns from Heaven.

Mystery has great charms for womanhood.

You will, I trust, resemble a forest plant, which has indeed, by some accident, been brought up in the greenhouse, and thus rendered delicate and effeminate, but which regains its native firmness and tenacity, when exposed for a season to the winter air.

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.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.