It is not mere technical skill that makes a man a golfer, it is the golfing soul.

the ice was not only broken; it was shivered into a million fragments

It is true of course, that I have a will of iron, but it can be switched off if the circumstances seem to demand it.

What earthly good is golf? Life is stern and life is earnest. We live in a practical age. All around us we see foreign competition making itself unpleasant. And we spend our time playing golf? What do we get out of it? Is golf any use? That's what I'm asking you. Can you name me a single case where devotion to this pestilential pastime has done a man any practical good?

Bicky rocked, like a jelly in a high wind.

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.

He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his years, or a man of about a hundred and ten who had been aged by trouble.