Emma McDowall

“We have to combine, certainly, but if we combine to fight on the idea of each man making more money for himself, then we end by fighting one another. And that's the trouble now... human dealings are founded - founded - not on money but on what is fair and just all round.”
― Neil M. Gunn

“We cannot buy it. We are too poor. Then men who have made the law have taken our own drink from us, and have not left us wherewith to buy it. Yet they can buy it, because they are rich. I have a feeling that that is not just. I do not grudge them their riches and all it can buy for them.”
― Neil M. Gunn, Young Art and Old Hector: A Novel

“Surely love, if there was any such thing, should be ease and tenderness...”
― Neil M. Gunn, The Silver Darlings

“You would think," added Art, "that a wedding was a great thing."
"Well," replied Old Hector, "it's not a small thing, as a rule. They contrive, one way or another, to make a lot of it.”
― Neil M. Gunn