He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

. . . had I a river I would gladly let all honest anglers that use the fly cast line in it, but, but where there is no protection, then nets, poison, dynamite, slaughter of fingerlings, and unholy baits devastate the fish, so that 'free fishing' spells no fishing at all.

I don't think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to be living.

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who really care for books read all of them. There is no other course.

And remember that the danger which is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.

Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable.

Among the various forms of science which are reaching and affecting the new popular tradition, we have reckoned Anthropology. Pleasantly enough, Anthropology has herself but recently emerged from that limbo of the unrecognised in which Psychical Research is pining.