“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.”
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It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.