Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.
O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?
He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping. Therefore be sure you look to that, and in the next place look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience.
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.
[T]is not all fishing to fish.
It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.