not only have children most certainly a right to their own ambitions, but their own lack of ambitions.

Cry down materialism all you will, surely one of the thoroughly satisfactory sensations of this world is to feel financially independent.

The main trouble with this civilized world isn't that we adventure too much, but that we fail to adventure enough.

New York, forever the port of em- and de-barkation en route to Adventure.

Trout fishing is like any other sport. It is waste of words to try to give anyone who has never tried it any idea of what it means to land a five-pound trout on a gossamer leader.

Heaven grants the human being who has learned to live alone a deep measure of such rewards that verily would one hesitate to sacrifice such proved satisfactions, such rare unending possibilities of contentment for anything less than certainty more certain still.

I hadn't the personality to be a long-term Success.