Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

I must have been an insufferable child; all children are.

Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You've no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!

The harder I work the more I live.

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.