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

A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

Pessimism is the one ism which kills the soul.

I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.

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

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.