Saints are sinners who kept on going.

With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.

To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity.

Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.

The greatest engineering is the engineering of men.

Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.