It's a wise conspirator that knows his own name. - John Buchan

I never mind choler in a man if he have also honesty and good sense.

Pardon,' he said, 'I'm a bit rattled tonight. You see, I happen at this moment to be dead.

"It portends," said Mr. Proudfoot, whom food did not mellow, "that our pure and reformed Kirk of Scotland is linked more than ever with sectaries and antinomians and those, like the bloody and deceitful Cromwell, that would defile the milk of the Word with the sour whey of their human inventions. What avails a triumphant Kirk if its doctrine be sullied?"