I have been devoured all my life by an incurable and burning impatience: and to this day find all oratory, biography, operas, films, plays, books, an….

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat..

I was born in the country of Hogg and Scott between the Yarrow and the Tweed, in the year 1864..

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life..

My sort of looks are of the kind that bore me when I see them on other people..

All I can say about my mind is that, like a fire carefully laid by a good housemaid, it is one that any match will light..

There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs --apart ….