He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.

A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman.

I know not why any one but a school boy in his declamation would whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by the misery of the rest of mankind. The Romans, like others, as soon as they were rich, grew corrupt; and in their corruption sold the lives and freedoms of themselves and of one another.

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

Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.

The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.

Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.