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!

Blessings we enjoy daily, and for the most of them, because they be so common, men forget to pay their praises. [and miss much of their benefits from grateful appreciation]

Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.

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.

Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.

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