I am the batsman and the bat, / I am the bowler and the ball, / The umpire, the pavilion cat, / The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all.

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

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

Of all animals, he alone attains to the Contemplative Life.

A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself.

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

. . . 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.