The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide.

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.

You don't lead people by what you say to them

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.

By some people the meal itself is a long delay between the appetizer and the dessert.

Nature, like a true poet, abhors abrupt transitions.

When two or three sciences are pursued at the same time if one of them be dry, as logic, let another be more entertaining, to secure the mind from weariness.

The last thing I would want to do is to create the impression that sectarianism came from only one side of the community.

While drinking, while talking, while writing, while watering our garden, it's always possible to practice living in the here and the now.

All I ever wanted to do was be on stage, if possible acting in Shakespeare. And to be as good as I could be.