I will see this game of life out to its bitter end
What is writing but an expression of my own life?
Before exulatation had vanished, I felt as if I had been granted a marvellous privilege. Out of the inscrutable waters a beautiful fish had somehow leaped to show me fleetingly the life and spirit of his element.
Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.
Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
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.