I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow.

I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne.

Cheese, like oil, makes too much of itself.

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest; and if you can do with a little, ask for a great deal. Because if you don't you won't get any.

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.

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.