A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

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

My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at the gates, and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.