There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.
It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.
Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
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.
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.