The book trade is a spiritual barometer of a nations well-being.

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

Most true points are fine points. There never was a dispute between mortals where both sides hadn't a bit of right.

Pessimism is the one ism which kills the soul.

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.

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

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