If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.

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.

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

There are offences given and offences not given but taken.

God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

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.

It is agreed by most men, that the Eele is a most daintie fish; the Romans have esteemed her the Helena of their feasts, and some The Queen of pleasure.