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

- James Hogg

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?

- James Hogg

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

- James Hogg

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

- James Hogg

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

- James Hogg

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?

- James Hogg

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

- James Hogg

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…

- James Hogg

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

- James Hogg