Jan Cox Speas Quotes & Sayings

Dreams were frail things, when all was said, and loneliness the only certainty. — Jan Cox Speas

No one can save another from the consequences of wilful delusion. — Jan Cox Speas

There was no portion of land in the world with so contradictory a nature as the Highlands. Now it was a land of sunlit moors stained red with heather, knowing only the peace of the quiet sky and the heart-shaking beauty of the blue hills; now it was a harsh and awesome place where silent mists obscured the peaks and a bitter relentless rain came down from bitter skies, where an angry sea washed against the shore, and sullen clouds reflected in sullen gray lochs.
Scotland in the sun and Scotland in the rain ... — Jan Cox Speas

No pain is unbearable except that of regret. — Jan Cox Speas

Honesty must sometimes be taken in small measure, like a bitter medicine. — Jan Cox Speas

Endurance is not the frail and tenuous thing some think it, but is in reality the measuring rod of our sanity and may be safely stretched to fill our direst need. — Jan Cox Speas

The honor a man carries in his heart cannot be explained, lass," he said slowly. "Nor can you measure the courage of a man who will not betray his friends, even though he faces disaster himself. We've no right to question, unless we have known the same dilemma and acquitted ourselves with the same integrity. — Jan Cox Speas