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

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

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

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

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

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

Without humility there can be no humanity.