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

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 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.

A hungry cat does no favour to a trapped bird!

Times of calamity and distress have always been producers of the greatest men. The hardest steel is produced from the hottest fire; the brightest star shreds the darkest night.

The misapprehension about me is that I am some loud, rampant maniac. I am actually very pensive and quiet.

Now the Earth's face is lathered white with shaving soap It's a long time till the razor once more makes its face smooth and fresh and green.

There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later.

An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person.

Writing is my only interest. Even speaking is an interruption.

Stuart is good for Manchester City. It is not hard to see his passion for the game, and his commitment. (on Stuart Pearce)

You can't just pay attention to the short term, you just have to keep publishing.

Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime.