If there's another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.

Pharmaceutical projects are like fresh fruit - they depreciate if they are not tended to, and they do poorly if sitting on the shelf with long periods of inactivity.

Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approachesTam maun ride; That hour, o'night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hourTam mounts his beast in.

I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing; But, och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling!

The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

To make three guineas do the work of five.

Why has a religious turn of mind always a tendency to narrow and harden the heart?