Philosophy has often attempted to repress insolence by asserting that all conditions are leveled by death; a position which, however it may defect the happy, will seldom afford much comfort to the wretched.

Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.

..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still hold their heads among human beings?

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

An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.