Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

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

You seem to me to be a pretty lucky young man; keep your eyes open to your mercies. That part of piety is eternal; and the man who forgets to be grateful has fallen asleep in life.