The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises.
All my fears and cares are of this world; if there is another, an honest man has nothing to fear from it.
The landlord's laugh was ready chorus.
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
Nature's law, That man was made to mourn. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best!