The daisy is fair, the day-lily rare, The bud o' the rose as sweet as it's bonnie.

Man mind yoursel is the first commandment.

What is the life of a man more than the life of a lamb, or any guiltless animal?

O, love, love, love! Love is like a dizziness; It winna let a poor body Gang about his biziness!

Oh, why should vows so fondly made, Be broken ere the morrow, To one who loves as never maid Loved in this world of sorrow?

That undefined and mingled hum, Voice of the desert never dumb!

A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart-better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?

Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.

Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence.

The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to destruction

We are all subjected to two distinct natures in the same person. I myself have suffered grievously in that way.

Enlighten the people, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.

Christ must be rediscovered perpetually.

I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.

Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer.

The closer you get to God, the more you become yourself.

I continually stress to my players that all I expect from them at practice and in the games is their maximum effort.

It's very easy for a couple to experience joy together. But when you experience pain together, it can lead to such depth and such union. That is when you fuse.

The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.

To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.