Wise command, wise obedience: the capability of these two is the net measure of culture, and human virtue, in every man; all good lies in the possess… - Thomas Carlyle

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

This worthy man, whose nephew is still minister of Eskdalemuir (and author of a book on the Jews), proved the greatest blessing to that household. My father would, in any case, have saved himself. Of the other brothers, it may be doubted whether William Brown was not the primary preserver. They all learned to he masons from him, or from one another; instead of miscellaneous laborers and hunters, became regular tradesmen, the best in all their district, the skilfullest and faithfullest, and the best-rewarded every way. Except my father, none of them attained a decisive religiousness. But they all had prudence and earnestness, love of truth, industry, and the blessings it brings.