People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.

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

Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess in it, and therefore, after having been for some time without it, on account of illness, I thought it better not to return to it. Every man is to judge for himself, according to the effects which he experiences.

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too high a value upon things by which no real excellence is conferred.

To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the system every day