In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present; with the book I am in the past.

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.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.

The walk of Faith is to live according to the revelation we have received, in the midst of the mysteries we can't explain.

The truth is always more heroic than the hype.

Learn to help people with more than just their jobs: help them with their lives.

Saying good night to the mountains, the sun throws his most beautiful rays to them, that they may not forget him till the morning.

If we are looking for signs of democratization, then surely we are looking as well for forms of living on equal terms in and among cultural differences.

If we remove desire to be better, we become mediocre.

I am interested in power, too, but power for you, the people, not power for bureaucrats and politicians and officeholders and all the like.

... people notice differences and expect every difference in form to convey some difference in meaning.