It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.

I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.

In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked.

Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

Too much has been said of the heroes of history-the strong men, the troublesome men; too little of the amiable, the kindly, the tolerant.

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.