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

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.

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.

The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

If you never try, you will never know what it means to succeed.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

This is not something insignificant. This is real. This is happening, and this is ours.

Alexander Pope once wrote that the theater aspires to wake the soul by gentle strokes of art - to raise the genius and to mend the heart.

What does dating mean?

OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!

When one is transported by rage, it is best to observe attentively the effects on those who deliver themselves over to the same passion.

Well… don’t be offended, but you smell like a dog.

There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.

Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.