31 Quotes About Scottish-writer

Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development.

I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something.

Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.

No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable.

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.

Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.

I have been swamped with tremendous response. I am expecting a huge crowd.

Who among us but has had occasion to remark the ill-judged, however well-intentioned government of children by their teachers; and, yet more especially, by their parents?