If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.

Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.

I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.

I will see this game of life out to its bitter end

Never insult seven men when all your packing is a six-shooter.

Far away Tongariro! Green - white thundering Athabasca river of New Zealand! I vowed I would come again down across the Pacific to fish in the swift cold waters of this most beautiful and famous of trout streams. It is something to have striven. It is much to have kept your word.

The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.