Count not fowre except you have them in a wallett.
Trust no friend with that you need fear him if he were your enemy.
Better never begin than never make an end.
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.
No day so clear but hath dark clouds.
Honour without profit is a ring on the finger.