"The best friend I hae in the warld is a sodger, but I'm thinking I hae lost the knack o 'fechting."
"'There is baith weal and woe come wi' warld's gear,"
"a wild kind of warld by themsells, full of heights and howes, woods, caverns, lochs, rivers, and mountains, that it wad tire the very deevil's wings to flee to the tap o 'them."