I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

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.

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

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.

If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility.

I don't believe in a lot of baggage. It's such a nuisance. Life's too short to fuss with it. And it isn't really necessary

The vast world rainless, one may bid adieuTo charity and penance.

If you use a cell phone - as I do - your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Zen was a reaction. Just as Buddha came into the world and spoke against the fall of Vedanta, so Buddhism lost its essence and became ritual. Zen was a reaction to that.

Awareness is a blissful state, not a painful one.

I've known for a long time that they're a bunch of idiots.

Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.

The drop grows happy by losing itself in the river.