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

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.

Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.

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.

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.

To bring the best human qualities to anything like perfection, to fill them with the sweet juices of courtesy and charity, prosperity, or, at all events, a moderate amount of it, is required,--just as sunshine is needed for the ripening of peaches and apricots.

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.