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. The uncultivated, unsophisticated trout in unfrequented waters prefers the bait; and the rural people, whose sole object in going a-fishing appears to be to catch fish, indulge them in their primitive taste for the worm. No sportsman however, will use anything but the fly, except when he happens to be alone.

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

Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.

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.

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

Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.

Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.