Oh, I'm as great a sinner that way as any.

I was forgetting, before the war came to remind me, the days when I'd been puir and had had tae think longer over the spending of a saxpence than I had need to in 1914, in you days before the Kaiser turned his Huns loose, over using a hundred poonds.
I'm not blaming a puir body for being bitter when things gae wrong.
All I'm saying is he'll be happier, and his troubles will be sooner mended if he'll only be thinking that maybe he's got a part in them himsel'.

It's hard to get things richt when you're thinking they're a' the fault o' some one else, some one you can't control.

Ca' the guilty one what you will--a prime minister, a capitalist, a king.

Is it no hard to mak' a wrong thing richt when it's a' his fault?
But suppose you stop and think, and you come tae see that some of your troubles lie at your ain door?
What's easier then than to mak' them come straight?
There are things that are wrong wi' the world that we maun all pitch in together to mak' richt--I'm kenning that as well as anyone.