Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

I've sometimes thought . . . that the difference between us and the English is that the Scotch are hard in all other respects but soft with women, and the English are hard with women but soft in all other respects.

Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened.

The man who is in real danger is the man who thinks he is perfectly safe.

You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.

You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.