💬 Quotes

"Vivez, capitaine, vivez ! Homme extraordinaire, homme incompris, oubliez-vous donc que la science n'a pas tout dit ?"

"Il y a des hommes de cœur qui meurent pour l'indépendance de leur patrie, et il y en a d'autres qui meurent pour l'indépendance de l'humanité."

"Is it not magnificent to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?"

"Kindred hearts are not so scarce as they used to be, but they're just as sweet."

"A good, honest mistake is often the best kind of education one can have."

"There is a great deal of unappreciated heroism in the world that never gets into the newspapers."

"Imagination is a wonderful thing, but it takes a deal of common sense to keep it properly harnessed."

"It is the people who are hard to understand who generally need understanding the most."

"My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor!"

"It's a sad thing to see a man o' sense and discretion stickin' up for the king's reid-coats, when the hanks o' yarn are a' tanglin' the wrang way."

"Men will risk collision with society and law for sake of wealth, but it is a heavier crime to steal a man's good name and peace of mind."

"A man who has nae sense o' what is right and wrang, except what the law tells him, is but an ill kind of a creature at best."

"It is better to be the head of alizard than the tail of a lion, and upon that motto I have built my fortunes."

"Time and tide roll on, and all things pass away: the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest."

"It is not he who best knows the manners of the times, who is most capable of forming a judgment on the great events of history."

"A great work is not to be hurried; and as we cannot always be grave and solemn, we must sometimes allow ourselves to loiter."

"The enthusiasm of the horseman was matched by that of the rider; both followed the impulse of a hot blood and an active imagination."

"Men of great parts are not always the best calculators of the probabilities of human affairs; their own views are too vast for the scale."

"A tale of woe, such as now oppresses my memory, has its own peculiar moral, teaching us the instability of human grandeur."

"Time and change have blotted out many a proud distinction, and-what is perhaps a better comfort-have subdued many a rancorous feud."