None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

The insolence of wealth will creep out.

I advised Chambers, and would advise every young man beginning to compose, to do it as fast as he can, to get a habit of having his mind to start promptly; it is so much more difficult to improve in speed than in accuracy.

A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.