Look to your health: and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy; and therefore value it.

And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.

We see but the outside of a rich man's happiness; few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time consuming herself.

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

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

No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.

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