Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)

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.

Being a child is such a shining gift, yet we don't know how precious it is until it's worn out and gone away.

I am learning that man can live profoundly without masses of things.

We are here to laugh at the odds.

Both of my grandparents died of lung cancer. So I got quite a lesson in the payback later in life of smoking, and if you keep it up how bad it can be.

I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be.

All the professors in all the religious colleges in this country rolled into one, would not equal Charles Darwin.

The only way was forward, whatever lay at the end.

It is lost, lovely child, somewhere in the ragbag that I laughingly refer to as my memory.

I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a ­manager would be my first choice.