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.

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

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

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.

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.

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