“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was”

“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new”

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.”

“There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course”

“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”

“Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers ”