Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy; knowledge is not always present.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

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

In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience is to be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints, that, if properly applied might remove the cause.

I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth.

Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.

I have all my life long been lying in bed till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.