It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.

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.

Guilt is a feeling that you owe a debt that you're not paying.

I focused, rather embarrassingly, on his chest which was rising and falling slowly. I left teeth marks!

Then we shan’t regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who is fussy about what he studies…

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

Safety tip. When you see smoke run, never wait for fire.

And all now is war where so lately there was peace, and the sweet brotherhood, the use of tilled fields.

Whenever I read _Time_ or _Newsweek_ or such magazines, I wash my hands afterward. But how to wash off the small but odious stain such reading leaves on the mind?

Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.

Not everyone is going to like every carnival ride.

Normally, I'm good at first dates, 'cause that's the only date I ever have, so I know how to control it and be confident.