James Hogg

“But I, like a fool, found it my interest to give up my judgement to his, and my conscience to the keeping of my spiritual guide.”

“A man who is not a fool can be a hero at any time.”

“O, love, love, love! Love is like a dizziness; It winna let a poor body gang about his business!”

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

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

“It is the part of a man of sense to be satisfied with the station in which God has placed him.”

“With my mysterious comrade, I felt myself somehow allied to beings of a superior order.”

“We are all subjected to two distinct and opposite powers, which we may call the good and the evil principles.”

“I like to have a fling at wholesome orthodox paradox.”

“A man's private devotions are his own property.”

“Good-night, and joy be wi' you a'.”

“Bird of the wilderness, blithesome and cumberless, sweet be thy matin o'er moorland and lea!”

“Kilmeny looked up with a lovely grace, But nae smile was seen on Kilmeny's face.”

“There is no meeting in the world so sweet as that of a lover and his mistress, and no parting so bitter.”