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

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

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.

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

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.

It's a great life, if you don't weaken.