I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.

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

A large stone was then lowered down on the grave, and covered the moderate space now sufficient for the man for whom Europe was once too little.

If a faultless poem could be produced, I am satisfied it would tire the critics themselves; and annoy the whole reading world with the spleen.

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

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!

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

Heap on the wood!-the wind is chill;
But let it whistle as it will,
We'll keep our Christmas merry still.

He that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.

But there stands the sword of my ancestor Sir Richard Vernon, slain at Shrewsbury, and sorely slandered by a sad fellow called Will Shakespeare, whose Lancastrian partialities, and a certain knack at embodying them, has turned history upside down, or rather inside out.

The readiest mode to corrupt a Christian man is to bestow upon vice the pity and the praise which are due only to virtue. Your Baron of Roussillon is a monster of cruelty; but your unfortunate lovers were not the less guilty. It is by giving fair names to foul actions that those who would start at real vice are led to practise its lessons, under the disguise of virtue.

God will raise me up a champion, said Rebecca -- -It cannot be that in merry England -- -the hospitable, the generous, the free, where so many are ready to peril their lives for honour, there will not be found one to fight for justice. But it is enough that I challenge the trial by combat -- -there lies my gage.

Mellow nuts have the hardest rind.

Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

Mystery has great charms for womanhood.

The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.

O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!