You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.

Nay, Sir, those who write in them, write well, in order to be paid well.

Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images; and words to which we are nearly strangers, whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves which they should transmit to other things.

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

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

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

A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.