A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.

Trees are your best antiques

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.

Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.

In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.

All the doors you ignored or refused to enter represents your uncreated fates!

. . . the humblest, and at the same time most balanced and capacious, praised most, while the crank, misfits and malcontents praised least.

The more we do the more we can do the more busy we are the more leisure we have.

It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.

I've got this crazy dream of stripping down to truth and bone.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions.

In the spiritual life, he who does not advance goes backwards.

Don’t tolerate any form of average. Don’t accept Dis-excellence. Don’t stand for mediocre. If you’re going to settle, then please settle for the absolute best.

Remember, every great leader (or visionary or brave thinker) was initially laughed at. Now they are revered.