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.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

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

Isolation breeds conceit.

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.