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

You canna expect to be baith grand and comfortable.

Hogmanay, like all festivals, being but a bank from which we can only draw what we put in.

 

It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.

Life…is like a cup of tea; the more heartily we drink, the sooner we reach the dregs.

 

I can’t sleep.

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads.

I bowl so slow that if after I have delivered the ball I don’t like the look of it, I can run after it and bring it back.