Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

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

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.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.

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

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.

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passions, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

If you have love you don't need to have anything else. If you don't have it it doesn't matter much what else you do have.

There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

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.

The most useless are those who never change through the years.

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.