In my garden I spend my days; in my library I spend my nights.

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.

It doesn't matter where your journey begins, so long as you begin it...

Some women are born with an instinct for knowing how things work—and what to do when they break.

Needs pain and time to crystallized a bravery in the soul of human

If you are a Christian, especially if you are unhappy or frustrated, remind yourself frequently of the purple wedge in which you live.

True happiness isn't something that is achieved only once and continues

Be a good neighbor, and leave me alone.

If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don't deserve to win.

Perhaps... you love too fiercely.

There are so many great comedies, right now. I like how comedies are really mixing. They're not just one thing. It can be very moving and dramatic, and yet hilarious.

It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.