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.

It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it.

The noble temptation to see too much in everything.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.

Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.