Of all injustice that is the greatest which goes under the name of law.

When men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be ridiculed out of it.

It must be an industrious youth that provides against age; and he that fools away the one must either beg or starve in the other.

It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss.

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

My heart thrashes in time with my feet pounding across the cold, hard ground. I can’t run any faster, longer, and yet I must. My life and my family’s survival depends on it.

Be confidently assured that any ‘gods’ that we build will always have veracious appetites, and sooner or later they will gorge themselves on that which built them.

Quitters don't win and winners don't quit.

Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.

You can't keep a cool head when you're drowning in love. You just trash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out.

Well, I was born in Scotland and spent the first six years of my life there. Then I went to Newcastle-On-Tyne in northeast England, close to Scotland.

I always had a sense of liking diagrams, from the time I was studying architecture. Architecture is built diagrams, basically.

Frenchmen drink wine just like we used to drink water before Prohibition.

One of the fundamental choices you face in every encounter is the choice to approach or avoid.

For there 's nae luck about the house, There 's nae luck at a'; There 's little pleasure in the house When our gudeman 's awa'.