Robert Burns Quotes
I have often thought that if a well-grounded affection be not really a part of virtue, it is something extremely akin to it.
Burns, Robert. Letter to Alison Begbie, 1780. The Letters of Robert Burns, edited by J. De Lancey Ferguson, vol. 1, Clarendon Press, 1931, p. 6.
Robert Burns, also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns, the National Bard, Bard of Ayrshire and the Ploughman Poet and various other names and epithets, was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is in English and a light Scots dialect, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland. He also wrote in standard English, and in these writings his political or civil commentary is often at its bluntest.
