He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.

Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.

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

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.

To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour, is to expect a peculiar privilege, a power denied to the rest of mankind; but to suppose that the maze is inscrutable to diligence, or the heights inaccessible to perseverance, is to submit tamely to the tyranny of fancy, and enchain the mind in voluntary shackles.

As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.