“_Scotland is the home of romance because it is the home of
Scott, Burns, Black, Macdonald, Stevenson, and Barrie—and of
thousands of men like that old Highlander in kilts on the
tow-path, who loves what they have written. I would wager he has
a copy of Burns in his sporran, and has quoted him half a dozen
times to the grim Celt who is walking with him. Those old boys
don’t read for excitement or knowledge, but because they love
their land and their people and their religion—and their great
writers simply express their emotions for them in words they can
understand. You and I come over here, with thousands of our
countrymen, to borrow their emotions._”——
ROBERT BRIDGES: _Overheard in Arcady_.