“Never was there a more injurous mistake than to say it was thebusiness only of the clergy to care for souls.”
“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.”
“True justice is paying only once for each mistake. True injustice is paying more than once for each mistake.”
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
“But he'll never be fully recognised, because Scots literature these days is all about complaining and moaning and being injured in one's soul.”
“Never say more than is necessary.”