If a man is worth knowing at all he is worth knowing well.

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.

I'm so cool that the kids come to my bedroom and go, 'Mom! Turn the music down!

For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

The only consent hinge in life is that everyhin is changing. And that's a little scary, but it means that hints can't be bad or hard forever.

Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years and they're still poor.

China only did the biggest devaluation in 20 years, only for one reason. Because they could get away with it.

Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.

Israeli murderers are called "commandos," Arab commandos are called "terrorists."

In an effective classroom students should not only know what they are doing, they should also know why and how.

[Photography is a] hair-raising joy ride in a medium that, despite being a mechanical trick, can break down the division between mind and matter like a superhero, or an artist.

One must use the night.