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

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

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

"'What would you call the highest happiness?' Wratislaw was asked. 'The sense of competence,' was the answer, given without hesitation."

"The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things."