I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing; But, och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling!.

Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever . . ..

Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change..

Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing..

Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approachesTam maun ride; That hour, o'night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hourTam mounts his beas….

Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O; Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O!.

The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry..

Burns' Hog-Weighing Method: (1) Get a perfectly symmetrical plank and balance it across a sawhorse. (2) Put the hog on one end of the plank. (3) Pile….

And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation's path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and as….

The golden hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary..

Dweller in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation, mark! Who in widow weeds appears, Laden with unhonoured years, Noosing with care a bursting purse, ….

Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious..

Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring..

There's some are fou o' love divine; There's some are fou o' brandy..

My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither..

I look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December night. I admire the beauty of t….

God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of….

Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces..

Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects..

My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and swee….

Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel's united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted..