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

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

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

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

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

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

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