Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.

It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

Cultivate a sense of humour. From a humorous point of view this lunch is rather good.

Five thousand people in one society might do something, but five thousand societies of one member each would be a holy trouble.

I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.

Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake. Mere bald fabrication is useless; the veriest tyro can manage that. It is in the circumstantial detail, the embellishing touches of probability, the general air of scrupulous - almost of pedantic - veracity, that the experienced angler is seen.

A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon.