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And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.

So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.

It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.

Angling may be said to be so like the Mathematics that it can never be fully learnt; at least not so fully but that there will still be more new experiments left for the trial of other men that succeed us.

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

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.