"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."

"A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all."

"Hope is necessary in every condition."

"If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle."

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

"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."

"Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors."

"I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made."

"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much."

"A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country, and in his own house."

"Not nail a great star to its track, . . . Tell when to go and when come back;. . . But open up thy heart to know What rainbows teach and sunsets show."

"Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth."