Epigrams of poet Ralph Hodgson:

• Oaths in anguish rank with prayers.
• The wink was not our best invention.
• When crises pall, humdrum is sensational.
• But Woman — in whose image made?
• A sparrow in a snowstorm with a feather in his bill: that is Faith.
• Forget the slush, but keep the snow / Of Christmasses of long ago.
• Anniversary: Familiarity breeds content.
• Some things have to be believed to be seen.
• Who shall paraphrase a tear!
• There’s one thing to be said for sin — it does give conscience exercise.
• Why not Foremothers?
• The Golden Rule was called new-fangled, once upon a time.
• Blessed are the children of a nobody.
• The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.

And “The ‘last word’ is only the latest.”