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

“To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.”

“There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“The secret belongs only to the Maker of good and faithful dogs.”

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