James Hogg Quotes

Man mind yoursel is the first commandment.

The daisy is fair, the day-lily rare, The bud o' the rose as sweet as it's bonnie.

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

O, love, love, love! Love is like a dizziness; It winna let a poor body Gang about his biziness!

Oh, why should vows so fondly made, Be broken ere the morrow, To one who loves as never maid Loved in this world of sorrow?

That undefined and mingled hum, Voice of the desert never dumb!

A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart-better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?

Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.

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

The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to destruction

We are all subjected to two distinct natures in the same person. I myself have suffered grievously in that way.