I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.

It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method.

Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.

If there was any petting to be done...he chose to do it. Often he would sit looking at me, and then, moved by a delicate affection, come and pull at my coat and sleeve until he could touch my face with his nose, and then go away contented.

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest.

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.