holier quotes

Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 65:5.

I can scarcely fancy myself to ask a superior to publish a volume of my verse and I own that humanly there is very little likelihood of that ever coming to pass. And to be sure if I chose to look at things on one side and not the other I could of course regret this bitterly. But there is more peace and it isthe holier lot to be unknown than to be known.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins
Letter to Richard Watson Dixon, 29 Oct. Collected in C C Abbott (ed)  The Correspondence of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Richard Watson Dixon (1935).