Pessimism is the one ism which kills the soul.

To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice. It is never a question of who is right but what is right.

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.

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

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind.