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

Chess is one long regret.

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.

Being a specialist is one thing, getting a job is another.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

All our yesterdays, it is true, have only lighted fools the way to dusty death. But we need at least the dates of the yesterdays and the list of the fools.

It may be those who do most, dream most.