I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
To step aside is human.
Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit.