Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England.

Few of those who fill the world with books, have any pretensions to the hope either of pleasing or instructing. They have often no other task than to lay two books before them, out of which they compile a third, without any new material of their own, and with very little application of judgment to those which former authors have supplied.

A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.

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

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.