“A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.”

Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.

One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.

Steady of heart and stout of hand.

Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?

Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.

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

Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.

Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.

A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.

Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!

Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.

All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.

If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.

Americans, are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.

The only forever I have witnessed in my life is the relationship of love and goodbyes.

I know there is no such thing as forever. But I promise I will love you until the very end.

Who wants to live forever?

He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.

We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every step.