The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and each labors first to impose upon himself and then to propagate the imposture.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

Fear naturally quickens the flight of guilt.

Repentance, however difficult to be practiced, is, if it be explained without superstition, easily understood. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God.

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

Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

Whoever shall review his life, will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no apparent moment.