To do something is in every man's power.

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

Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.