“You speak of my drinking, yet you don't know my thirst”

“Better bend than break.”

“Open confession is good for the soul.”

“Fools look to tomorrow wise men use tonight.”

“Give and take makes good friends.”

“Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom.”

“A soldier never goes to war without his weapon.”

“Neither your work to be with insensible, nor their work to be with you.”

“who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet..”

“Though the continued march of intellect and education have nearly obliterated from the mind of the Scots a belief in the marvelous, still a love of the supernatural lingers among the more mountaino...”

“Give me but one hour of Scotland Let me see it ere I die.”

“O Caledonia! stern and wild Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood Land of the mountain and the flood Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial ban...”