James Beattie

“Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad.”

“How sweet the words of Truth, breathed from the lips of Love.”

“Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.”

“And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.”

“At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, and naught but the nightingale's song in the grove.”

“The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.”

“In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame.”

“Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?”

“No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season looked delightful as it past, to the fond husband and the faithful wife.”

“From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy.”

“Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms.”

“He thought as a sage, though he felt like a man.”