There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which is the most bitter.

If you can sit at set of sun And count the deeds that you have done And counting find oneself-denying act, one word That eased the heart of him that heard. One glance most kind, Which fell like sunshine where he went, Then you may count that day well spent.

The devil, that old stager, who leads downward, perhaps, but fiddles all the way!

All service ranks the same with God,- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first.

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.

How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead; So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!

Would you have your songs endure? Build on the human heart.