There are three things in the world that he held in the smallest esteem - slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups.

I always advise people never to give advice.

No one so dislikes being punished unjustly as the person who might have been punished justly on scores of previous occasions, if he had only been found out.

The test of a great golfer is his ability to recover from a bad start.

Like so many substantial citizens of America, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the Alps leaping from crag to crag.

It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.

One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when one is compelled to tell the truth.