A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment!

It takes all sorts of people to make a world.

Earth is here so kind that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

Love the sea? I dote upon it - from the beach.

My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her like a banknote for two twenties.

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution " the old one.

Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time it's ten to one if they hang long together.

Never have a friend that's poorer than yourself.

Happiness grows at our own firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Some people's hearts are shrunk in them like dried nuts. You can hear 'em rattle as they walk.

Over-mastered by some thoughts, I yeelded an inckie tribute unto them.

A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes.

I don't love the word luxury because it feels Bougy to me.

As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister.

There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his life in proper proportion.

A bad workman blames his tools.

When emotional intelligence merges with spiritual intelligence, human nature is transformed.

The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be happy as well as wise.

Two people who think they're in love can find out, when left alone, exactly how little they know about each other.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.