The sixth grade made my life successful by preparing me for the seventh and the seventh by preparing me for the eighth and so on. May it do the same for you.

The priceless treasure of boyhood is his endless enthusiasm, his high store of idealism, his affections and his hopes. When we preserve these, we have made men. We have made citizens and we have made Americans.

Fishing is more than fish; it is the vitalizing lure to outdoor life.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all laws.

The most essential factor to economic recovery today [1932] is the restoration of confidence.

The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they're too damn greedy.

The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.