Don't seek to be what ye can never be.

Ye'll stand to lose all ye've got if ye let pride rule ye." I never whispered my real ambition to anyone in yon days--saving the wife, and Mackenzie Murdoch.

Indeed, and it was he who spoke first.
"Ye'll not be wasting all yer time in the north country, Harry," he said.

"There's London calling to ye!" "Aye--London!" I said, a bit wistfully, I'm thinking.

For me, d'ye ken, a Scots comic, to think o' London was like an ordinary man thinkin' o' takin' a trip to the North Pole.