Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.

Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability of science.

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

Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.

To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its own sophisms, and keep it on guard against the fallacies which it practices on others

To do nothing is in everyone's power.

The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit.