A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

The triumph of hope over experience.

Keeping accounts, sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today because you have written down what it cost yesterday.

All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.

Nothing can be truly great which is not right.

Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.