The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance.

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.

The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.

The Byzantines hammered away at their hard and orthodox symbols, because they could not be in a mood to believe that men could take a hint. The moderns drag out into lengths and reels of extravagance their new orthodoxy of being unorthodox, because they also cannot give a hint -- or take a hint. Yet all perfect and well-poised art is really a hint.