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.

He who distributes the milk of human kindness cannot help but spill a little on himself.

We have a right to know the truth; no right to ask anything else from God, but the right to know that.

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

Take care, lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe.

Courage: The lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.