Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually from a deeper source, to wit, from having bought a whistle when I did not want one.

To forget oneself is to be happy.

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

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.

In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.

This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world of reality.

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.