Give me but one hour of Scotland, Let me see it ere I die. - William Edmondstoune Aytoun,

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.

The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet. What you perceive is in this world is largely a reflection of your own attitudes and beliefs. Life will give you what you attract with your thoughts think, act and talk negatively and your world will be negative. Think and act and talk with enthusiasm and you will attract positive results.

It's my girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them.

That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.

Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Violence is as American as cherry pie.

It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

Love this Earth as if you won't be here tomorrow; show reverence for your Garden as if you will be here forever.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

Who does the best that circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly, angels could no more.

Ecce quod expendi habui, quod donavi habeo, quod negavi punior, quod servavi perdidi.

Nor do we find him forward to be sounded, But with a crafty madness keeps aloof When we would bring him on to some confession Of his true state.

Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380 He has loved us without being loved... We are bound to Him, and not He to us, because before He was loved, He loved us... There it is, then: we cannot... love Him with this first love. Yet I say that God demands of us, that as He has loved us without any second thoughts, so He should be loved by us. In what way can we do this, then? ... I tell you, through a means which he has established, by which we can love Him freely; ... that is, we can be useful, not to Him -- which is impossible -- but to our neighbor... To show the love that we have for Him, we ought to serve and love every rational creature and extend our charity to good and bad -- as much to one who does us ill service and criticizes us as to one who serves us. For, His charity extends over just men and sinners.

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.

The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.