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

The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.

He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power.

It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.