Musical cherub, soar, singing, away! Then, when the gloaming comes, Low in the heather blooms Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be! Emblem of ha….

What is the life of a man more than the life of a lamb, or any guiltless animal?.

The daisy is fair, the day-lily rare, The bud o' the rose as sweet as it's bonnie..

Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence..

If a body could just find oot the exac' proper proportion and quantity that ought to be drunk every day, and keep to that, I verily trow that he migh….

A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart-better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?.

That undefined and mingled hum, Voice of the desert never dumb!.

Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation..

O, love, love, love! Love is like a dizziness; It winna let a poor body Gang about his biziness!.

Oh, why should vows so fondly made, Be broken ere the morrow, To one who loves as never maid Loved in this world of sorrow?.

Man mind yoursel is the first commandment..