“Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.”

“Grief is the agony of an instant: the indulgence of grief is the blunder of life. ”

“All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.”

“It has been my lot to have found myself in many distant lands. I have never been in one without finding a Scotchman, and I never found a Scotchman who was not head of the poll.”

“An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.”

“There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”

“When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.”