The Waters are Nature's storehouse in which she locks up her wonders.

Doubtless God Could Have Made A Better Berry, But Doubtless God Never Did

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

As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.

Let us not repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches, when, as God knows, the cares that are the keys that keep those riches hang often so heavily at the rich man's girdle that they dog him with weary days and restless nights, even when others sleep quietly.

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

And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.