Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

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

Security will produce danger.

The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.