An old novel has a history of its own.

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.

We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old.

I want to be Tragedy, I want to be Juliet, I want to be Romeo. Thus with a kiss I die.

Man thalabal ‘ula sahiral layali.” He who wants glory will work late into the night. -184

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

Every new fad or fashion at once has its denouncers from the pulpit, platform, professor's chair.

The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.

I say what I think and I think what I say.

Angels are just pretty insects.

I'm very happy to sing whatever I'm singing. I've always enjoyed any role I've been given at a certain time. They've all been favourites, they've all been wonderful pieces to play.

There, close enough to spit on--if I'd been a barbarian and inclined to spit--was the dragon.