There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and each labors first to impose upon himself and then to propagate the imposture.

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

The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.

That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments...

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.