The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

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.

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.