To A Poet Nothing Can Be Useless.

No One Ever Became Great By Imitation.

Every Reader Should Remember The Diffidence Of Socrates, And Repair By His Candour The Injuries Of Time: He Should Impute The Seeming Defects Of His Author To Some Chasm Of Intelligence, And Suppose That The Sense Which Is Now Weak Was Once Forcible

Life Has No Pleasure Higher Or Nobler Than That Of Friendship.

A Scotchman Must Be A Very Sturdy Moralist Who Does Not Love Scotland Better Than Truth.

The Chief Glory Of Every People Arises From Its Authors.