The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.

For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance.

I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.

What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry.