Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.

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.

If we really are spiritual beings living a physical existence, then we have incredible power.

That day we held our hands and each other was indeed a beautiful dream. But, we all wake up in the end.

Nature is a dream state at this point, that we almost don't have a real relationship to it unless it's people living off the land and killing our own food and going for it.

A star is a person who shines so brightly,who gives their gifts so fully,who loves so completely that everyone is drawn by the light of this star to find the way home.

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something - that may not be very clear to me right now - but that I will do.

If you’re in the room, you've grabbed the brass ring. You are all winners.

Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.

There's been a lot of coming home in the early mornings after funny nights out, having bizarre sandwiches in bed.

Man is the greatest being that ever can be.