"Oh would some power the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as others see us"

"Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath, to keep it warm"

"O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us. (O would some power the gift to give us to see ourselves as others see us.)"

"I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission."

"I have spent most of my time worrying about things that have never happened."

"He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good."

"There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain."

"Miserable comforters are ye all."

"Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow."

"You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age."