I Don't Think The Idea

Of All Animals, He Alone Attains To The Contemplative Life.

I Am The Batsman And The Bat, / I Am The Bowler And The Ball, / The Umpire, The Pavilion Cat, / The Roller, Pitch, And Stumps, And All.

. . . Had I A River I Would Gladly Let All Honest Anglers That Use The Fly Cast Line In It, But, But Where There Is No Protection, Then Nets, Poison, Dynamite, Slaughter Of Fingerlings, And Unholy Baits Devastate The Fish, So That 'free Fishing' Spells No Fishing At All.

Politicians Use Statistics In The Same Way That A Drunk Uses Lamp-postsfor Support Rather Than Illumination.

Young Men, Especially In America, Write To Me And Ask Me To Recommend “a Course Of Reading.” Distrust A Course Of Reading! People Who Really Care For Books Read All Of Them. There Is No Other Course.