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

O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?

These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.

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.

This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.

He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping. Therefore be sure you look to that, and in the next place look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience.

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