"Oh would some power the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as others see us"

"Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath, to keep it warm"

"O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us. (O would some power the gift to give us to see ourselves as others see us.)"

"I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission."

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it."

"There's no bottom, none, in my voluptuousness: Your wives, your daughters, your matrons and your maids, could not fill up the cistern of my lust."

"Without work, talent is nothing but a bad habit."

"Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world."

"The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up."

"The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute."