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.

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.

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.

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.

IMBALANCE

The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance.

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

Anyone with a normal brain can do almost anything.

I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them.

I like poking my nose into other people's lives.

The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.

In America, the people are not subjects of government, the government is subject to the people.