To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar.
Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.
B.I.B.L.E. = Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth.
The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly, kind companion.
Extreme busyness, whether at school, or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.
It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood.
Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
There is a French saying: "Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love."
He who shuns the millstone, shuns the meal.
Happy the man, and happy he alone He who can call today his own He who, secure within, can say "Tomorrow, do thy worst For I have lived today."