Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.

To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; His chance tonight, it maybe thine tomorrow.

A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.

All love is lost but upon God alone.

London, thou art the flower of cities all! Gemme of all joy, jasper of jocunditie.

Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem.

Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false warld is but transitory.

Gem of all joy, jasper of jocundity.

Timor mortis conturbat me. The fear of death disturbs me.

Among my friends love is a payment. It is an old debt for a borrowing foolishly spent.

Neither our vices nor our virtues further the poem.

Wealth without real worthinessIs no good for the neighbourhood

The only instance where five purely-negative words have had a highly positive, motivational impact, are Winston Churchill's "Never, Never, Never, Never Give-Up".

I manage a toast to the Christmas treeand one to the sweet absurdityin the miracle of the verb to be.Lucky you, lucky me.

Stephen A.Douglas was a risk-taker by temperament; I expect that Lincoln - Douglas debates represented another risk he just couldn't resist. He lived to regret it.

The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention.

I am concerned about a president [Bill Clinton] under oath, being alleged to have committed perjury. I hope that he can rebut that and prove that did not happen.

I do think that with any kind of infidelity, on some level - unless you're dealing with a sociopath - there's always a reason.

Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood.

I had been working on a second book with [David] Petraeus called Relentless. Obviously that book and the income that it would have generated went away.