Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees.

Life, however short, is made still shorter by waste of time.

Of a thousand shavers, two do not shave so much alike as not to be distinguished.

Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow.

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

Such is the constitution of man that labour may be styled its own reward; nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered how much happiness is gained, and how much misery escaped, by frequent and violent agitation of the body.

To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.