In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present; with the book I am in the past.

To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.

In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present; with the book I am in the past.

Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.

It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.

Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.