I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.
Education made us what we are.
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or knaves.
The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.
Genius is nothing but continued attention.
There are so many things we do not appreciate in our life until we recognize God's love for us in them.
I have always directed my attempts at the figurative representation of objects by way of summary and not very descriptive brushstrokes, diverging greatly from the real objective measurements of things, and this has led many people to talk about childish drawing. . . . this position of seeing them (the objects, fh) without looking at them too much, without focussing more attention on them than any ordinary man would in normal everyday life.
Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.
If school days are the happiest days of your life, I'm hanging myself with my skip-rope tonight.