Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.

Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.

Nobody ever died of laughter.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

Reverence is a good thing, and part of its value is that the more we revere a man, the more sharply are we struck by anything in him (and there is always much) that is incongruous with his greatness.

The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.

Golf: The most ... perfect expression of National Stupidity.