Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.

You cannot lose what you never had.

Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.

Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing. [Not only be grateful for the good that you have but also for the bad you don't!]

We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did; and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.