The Germans wit is in his fingers.
Wee leave more to do when wee dye, then wee have done.
Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.
He that is surprized with the first frost feeles it all the winter after.
Keep good company, and you shall be of the number.
But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and Aristotle, has no more essential permanence as a final expression of the human mind, than the Scottish Longer Catechism.