I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.

I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.

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

Love of man for woman--love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.

What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.

There are always greater fish than you have caught, always the lure of greater task and achievement, always the inspiration to seek, to endure, to find.

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

Fishing is a condition of mind wherein you cannot possibly have a bad time.

There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.

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

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

It is in the nature of the mind that the more we cultivate and familiarize ourselves with positive emotions, the more powerful they become.

And again Harry understood without having to think. It did not matter about bringing them back, for he was about to join them. He was not really fetching them: They were fetching him.

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

It's a silly thing, but I like to understand people through their obsessions.

It is the mark of a gentleman to be moderate in the use of wine.

People are willing to work free, and they are willing to work for a reasonable wage; but offer them just a small payment and they will walk away.

Reading and writing is so important, and it's something I am really keen to promote. It's something that can be a bit lost these days with so much else going on.

I never felt I left the stage.

I think when you really love something, you notice the minutiae.

I don't want to commit myself in advocating a definite republican constitution which will get bogged down with the question of who would elect the President and when.