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

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

If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.

And though it is most certain, that two lutes being both strung and turned to an equal pitch, and then one played upon, the other will warble a faint audible harmony in answer to the same tune: yet many will not believe there is any such thing as sympathy of souls, and I am well pleased that every reader do enjoy his own opinion.

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

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.

As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.