Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play.

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.

I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.

What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people's minds.

Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope but not altogether without it.