What joy is better than the news of friends?

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.

Who knows most, doubts most; entertaining hope means recognizing fear.

Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men.

For I say this is death and the sole death,- When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest.

What a thing friendship is - World without end.

All poetry is putting the infinite within the finite.