The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Misfortunes should always be expected.

Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religions hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection must plunge him deeper and deeper.

Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.

We are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.

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

It is however, reasonable, to have perfection in our eye; that we may always advance towards it, though we know it never can be reached.