It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.

... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.

It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.