I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination

Eat good dinners and drink good wine; read good novels if you have the leisure and see good plays; fall in love, if there is no reason why you should not fall in love; but do not pore over influenza statistics.

Cassivelaunus had prepared the river for Caesar, by planting it full of stakes (and had, no doubt, put up a notice-board).

There are many families where the whole interest of life is centered upon the dog.

There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet - except in dreams.

He is very imprudent, a dog; he never makes it his business to inquire whether you are in the right or the wrong, never asks whether you are rich or poor, silly or wise, sinner or saint. You are his pal. That is enough for him.

If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.