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

I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

O grant me a house by the beach of a bay, Where the waves can be surly in winter, and play With the sea-weed in summer, ye bountiful powers! And I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, For a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.

. . . 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.

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.