All I can say about my mind is that, like a fire carefully laid by a good housemaid, it is one that any match will light.

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

I was born in the country of Hogg and Scott between the Yarrow and the Tweed, in the year 1864.

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.

It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.

Convictions no doubt have to be modified or expanded to meet changing conditions but ... to be a reliable political leader sooner or later your anchors must hold fast where other men's drag.