The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope..

Without humility there can be no humanity..

I believe that every man has in his soul a passion for treasure-hunting, which will often drive a coward into prodigies of valour..

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective..

That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it..

To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice. It is never a question of who is right but what is right..

I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal..

There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness..

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support..

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply..

And where the deepest current crawls/ Like thistledown the dainty fly falls./ Then from the depths a silver gleam/ Quick flashes, like a jewel bright….

You see only the productions of second-rate folk who are in a hurry to get wealth and fame. The true knowledge, the deadly knowledge, is still kept s….

[W]ithout humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation..

Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth..

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest..

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves..

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch her….

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them..

Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown..

Leadership is only courage and wisdom, and a great carefulness of self..

I would have been content with any job however thankless, in any quarter however remote, if I had a chance of making a corner of the desert blossom a….