48 quotes
Scottish novelist and poet (1850–1894)
“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”
"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life."
on Life
"An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding."
on Ambition
"Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was."
"The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek."
"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend."
on Friendship
"For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself."
on Wisdom
"Everyone lives by selling something."
on Business
"Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity,"
on Truth
"For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses."
on Marriage
"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well."
on Resilience
"You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us."
on Faith
"Vanity dies hard, in some obstinate cases it outlives the man."
on Identity
"A friend is a present you give to yourself."
on Relationships
"They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener;"
on Courage
"By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle."
"My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring."
"A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right."
on Career
"This simple accident of falling in love is as beneficial as it is astonishing."
on Love
"You must suffer me to go my own dark way."
"Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate."
