“Who hears the fishes when they cry?”

“No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes... I sometimes try my acquaintances by such tests as this, -- who could wear a patch, or two extra seams only, over the knee? Most behave as if they believed that their prospects for life would be ruined if they should do it. It would be easier for them to hobble to town with a broken leg than with a broken pantaloon. Often if an accident happens to a gentleman's legs, they can be mended, but if a similar accident happens to the legs of his pantaloon's, there is no help for it.”

“Some men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really the fish they are after.”

“He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.”

“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in”

“Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.”

“It is a great art to saunter.”