The Scots say that Nature itself dictated that golf should be played by the seashore. Rather, the Scots saw in the eroded sea coasts a cheap battleground on which they could whip their fellow men in a game based on the Calvinist doctrine that man is meant to suffer here below and never more than when he goes out to enjoy himself.

It's an acting job - acting natural.

To the goggling unbeliever Texans say, as people always say about their mangier dishes, 'But it's just like chicken, only tenderer.' Rattlesnake is, in fact, just like chicken - only tougher.

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later

No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.

New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.