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.

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.

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

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.

Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.

There is no happiness in having or in getting but only in giving.

A kiss is a rosy dot placed on the "i" in loving.

I try to make my heart beat out of my chest, hard-core, once a day for at least a half hour. I think that's very important.

I tend to vacillate between belief systems. Right now I'm kind of checking out the whole buffet, you know, and maybe in a little while I'll decide on what I want to put on my plate and chow down on.

I actually love working with accents. I don't know, something about it unlocks something in me. It makes me concentrate on getting into character a little more, helps me find a focus.

Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot support a man; this is the law of God, that virtue only is firm, and cannot be shaken by a tempest.

A feature film is an expansion of budget, stress, story, hours, time, workload, everything.

"Love is not altogether a Delirium," says he elsewhere; "yet has it many points in common therewith."