Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.

Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have won when they have lost nor that they had a magnificent drive when they foozled it. The Englishman is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.