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

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

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

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.

Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.

We see but the outside of a rich man's happiness; few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time consuming herself.

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