King James held convocation at Perth and demanded of the Scotch barons that they should produce the charters by which they held their lands; they all with one simultaneous movement, rose up and drew their swords.

It is only when the rich are sick, that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man hath put asunder.

It is an easy and a vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them, but, essentially, to benefit and to improve them is a work fraug…