The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.

My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.

Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit.

God knows, I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

Life is but a day at most.

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