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

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]

Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.

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.

[T]is not all fishing to fish.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

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