Golf is the only game where the worst player gets the best of it. He obtains more out of it as regards both exercise and enjoyment, for the good player gets worried over the slightest mistake, whereas the poor player makes too many mistakes to worry about them.

If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.

The conventional heaven with its angels perpetually singing etc nearly drove me mad in my youth and made me an atheist for ten years. My opinion is that we shall be reincarnated.

You cannot trust the interests of any class entirely to another class; and you cannot trust the interests of any sex to another sex.

One cannot cross an abyss in two jumps.

Explain to me again the difference between superstitious beliefs or pagan incantations, and scientific ones. Be braver - you cannot cross a chasm in two small jumps.