When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.