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

He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.

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

Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing. [Not only be grateful for the good that you have but also for the bad you don't!]

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

I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.

No man can lose what he never had.