Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace.

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

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.

They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.

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

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise.