BURNS, ROBERT

1. A Burns is infinitely better educated than a Byron.—CARLYLE
   

2. Burns, of all poets, is the most a Man.—ROSSETTI, On Burns
   

3. His greatness, not his littleness,
   Concerns mankind.—WILLIAM WATSON, The Tomb of Burns
   

4. Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time,
   So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry:
   Blot out the epic's stately rhyme,
   But spare his Highland Mary!—WHITTIER, Burns
   

5. I mourned with thousands, but as one
   More deeply grieved, for he was gone
   Whose light I hailed when first it shone,
   And showed my youth
   How verse may build a princely throne
   On humble truth.—WORDSWORTH, At the Grave of Burns