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

. . . 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'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.

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.

Life's more amusing than we thought.