Two wise men

PERHAPS the following quotations are now as relevant as when they were originally written:-

"There is a famine abroad a famine not of bread nor of gold, but a famine of really great men. We are strained with mediocrity, we are dying of ordinariness, we are perishing of pettiness." Fr James McDyer of Glencolumbkille .

"Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,