Your heart is as fresh as your face; and that is well. The useless men are those who never change with the years. Many views that I held to in my youth and long afterwards are a pain to me now, and I am carrying away from Thrums memories of errors into which I fell at every stage of my ministry. When you are older you will know that life is a long lesson in humility.

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

They have long lost count of the days, but always if they want to do anything special they say this is saturday night, and then they do it.

Your heart is as fresh as your face; and that is well. The useless men are those who never change with the years. Many views that I held to in my youth and long afterwards are a pain to me now, and I am carrying away from Thrums memories of errors into which I fell at every stage of my ministry. When you are older you will know that life is a long lesson in humility.

They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can't.

A loving wife is better than making 50 in cricket, or even 99, beyond that I will not go.

Forget not your past, for in the future it may help you grow