Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end..

We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brow….

Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition, which look bright from ….

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive..

The Europeans are themselves blind who describe fortune without sight. No first-rate beauty ever had finer eyes, or saw more clearly. They who have n….

Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture..

I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little grea….

As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us..

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or fut….

It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves..