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.
He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
The groundsell speakes not save what it heard at the hinges.
A bad dog never sees the Wolfe.
An old friend is a new house.