I am very willing to admit that I have some poetical abilities, and as few - if any - writers, either moral or political, are intimately acquainted with the classes of mankind among whom I have chiefly mingled, I may have seen men and manners in a different phasis from what is common, which may assist originality of thought.

The appellation of a Scottish Bard is by far my highest pride; to continue to deserve it is my most exalted ambition.

There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.

Robert Burns Quotes