It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word.

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.

Every traveler should make their own observation.

Hope! of all ills that men endure The only cheap and universal cure.

It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.

Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence.

I choose what I believe, and say nothing. For I am not as simple as I may seem.

Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.

My mom is my best friend and always offers me great perspective and reminds me to be compassionate to myself in moments when I feel low.

I see a woman in the night with a baby in her hand, under an old street light near a garbage can.

But the sea which no one tends is also a garden

The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.