The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.

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 don't have many famous friends, really, except Simon Cowell.

You never know when something's going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose.

Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.

I learned how to make jokes because I wanted to give people as much fun as they did, and I guess I did, too.

War is sweet to those who never tried it.

It's not enough just to be real; you have to try to make it interesting or entertaining.

Labor is God's education.

I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.

Talent is a valued tormentor.