A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart-better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?

Man mind yoursel is the first commandment.

The daisy is fair, the day-lily rare, The bud o' the rose as sweet as it's bonnie.

What is the life of a man more than the life of a lamb, or any guiltless animal?

O, love, love, love! Love is like a dizziness; It winna let a poor body Gang about his biziness!

Oh, why should vows so fondly made, Be broken ere the morrow, To one who loves as never maid Loved in this world of sorrow?

That undefined and mingled hum, Voice of the desert never dumb!

Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.

Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence.

The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to destruction

We are all subjected to two distinct natures in the same person. I myself have suffered grievously in that way.

The reality is that people reach for a Bible when they're feeling lost. But if they hadn't shelved it, maybe they wouldn't have gotten lost.

A loser is one who has "given up on his dreams", so long as you are trying, you haven't lost yet!

Tonight was about fathers. Vince was going to kill hers for murdering his.

She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on the surface is a slight tremor.

If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?

I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.

A man whose extraordinary reputation thus lifts him up to the notice and observation of mankind, draws a multitude of eyes upon him, that will narrowly inspect every part of him.

What differences were there between Maradona and Platini?

Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.

The amount of money that a person has in his bank account is not determined by his starting capital but by his knowledge about money and his ability to manage it properly.