The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.
Most disquieting reflection of all, was it not bad form to think about good form?
For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.
Life is a cup of tea; the more heartily we drink the sooner we reach the dregs.
You canna expect to be baith grand and comfortable.
"She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.