All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish. I find that the further I go back, the better things, whether they happened or not. The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
Duties are not performed for duties' sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty- the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself. It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval. They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce. I've dealt with many crises in my life, but few will ever happen.