It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.
God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.
The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?
Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, thought bitter, physic, to those children whose souls are dearest to him.