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.

An excellent angler, and now with God.

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.

Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.

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.

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.