A woman can be anything that the man who loves her would have her be.

It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.

The printing-press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, one sometimes forgets which.

I'm not young enough to know everything.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

You canna expect to be baith grand and comfortable.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

One's religion is whatever he is most interested in.

We are all failures - at least, all the best of us are.