Portal:Scotland/Selected quotes/44

" ...   No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober      ... "

&mdash; Samuel Smiles

" ...    It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value      ... "

&mdash; David Hume