I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.

There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness.

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

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

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

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

I would have been content with any job however thankless, in any quarter however remote, if I had a chance of making a corner of the desert blossom and the solitary place glad.