You canna do ought but tak' yourself seriously when they that work sae hard to earn it spend their siller to hear you.
I think it was in America, oot west, where the stock of the pioneers survives to this day, that I began to realize hoo much humanity counted for i' this world.

Yon's the land of the plain man and woman, you'll see.

Folk live well there, but they live simply, and I think they're closer, there, to living as God meant man tae do, than they are in the cities.

It's easier to live richtly in the country.

There's fewer ways to hand to waste time and siller and good intentions.
It was in America I first came sae close to an audience as to hae it up on the stage wi' me.