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.

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

One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least knowledge of him.

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

Each age has its choice of the death it will die.

The chief effect of talk on any subject is to strengthen one's own opinions, and, in fact, one never knows exactly what he does believe until he is warmed into conviction by the heat of attack and defence.

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.