Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.
Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that.
Always be a little kinder than necessary.
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.
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.