What if in Scotland's wilds we viel'd our head, Where tempests whistle round the sordid bed; Where the rug's two-fold use we might display, By night a blanket, and a plaid by day.

That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute.

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power.

I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears, Hangs a thrush that sings loud, it has sung for three years.

Still believe that ever round you Spirits float who watch and wait; Nor forget the twain who found you Sleeping nigh the Golden Gate.

Made poetry a mere mechanic art.

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant, but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.

A cup of cold Adam from the next purling stream.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.

Now comes the mystery.

Maud Muller looked and sighed: :Ah me! That I the Judge's bride might be! He would dress me up in silks so fine, And praise and toast me at his wine."

A little boy was saying his bedtime prayers with his mother:"Lord, bless Mommy and Daddy, and God, GIVE ME A NEW BICYCLE!!!"Mom: "God's not deaf, son.Boy: "I know, Mom, but Grandma's in the next room, and she's hard of hearing!