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

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.

Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth!

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.

[T]is not all fishing to fish.

No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.

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