Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

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

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation.

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!