The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.

Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow's head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.

A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.

The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.

The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art.