Virtue Is Too Often Merely Local.

Abuse Is Often Of Service. There Is Nothing So Dangerous To An Author As Silence.

Celestial Wisdom Calms The Mind.

If Misery Be The Effect Of Virtue, It Ought To Be Reverenced; If Of Ill-fortune, To Be Pitied; And If Of Vice, Not To Be Insulted, Because It Is Perhaps Itself A Punishment Adequate To The Crime By Which It Was Produced.

Babies Do Not Want To Hear About Babies; They Like To Be Told Of Giants And Castles.

Come, Let Me Know What It Is That Makes A Scotch Man Happy!