If 'Hamlet' had been written in these days it would probably have been called 'The Strange Affair at Elsinore.

There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

‎"She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.

In time they could not even fly after their hats. Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no longer believed.

All children, except one, grow up.

The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. Knowing what we are, the pride that shines in our mother's eyes as she looks at us is about the most pathetic thing a man has to face, but he would be a devil altogether if it did not burn some of the sin out of him.