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

Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.

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

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.

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.

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.

Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.