Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.

Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.

It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.

And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

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.