For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.
The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.
... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.
... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.
All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.