A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell.

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.

Nothing can be cut away. Even the worst of our memories is part of the foundation that keeps us in the world.

When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics.

Drew Dellinger is a deep and courageous poet. How lucky we are!

Gammy used to say, 'Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things.'

I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them.

When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.

Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.

[Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people.

Truth is to be sought with a mind purified from the passions of the body. Having overcome evil things, thou shalt experience the union of the union mortal divinity with the mortal man.

Keith Ellison is an organizer's organizer.He's one of the only Muslims in Congress, so you have a big statement there.