The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. The hasty reformer who does not remember the past will find himself condemned to repeat it.

"What would you call the highest happiness, Lewie?" he asked. "The sense of competence," was the answer, given without hesitation.

The book trade is a spiritual barometer of a nations well-being.

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.