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

You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of blessing attending upon it.

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

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

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

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

Let us not repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches, when, as God knows, the cares that are the keys that keep those riches hang often so heavily at the rich man's girdle that they dog him with weary days and restless nights, even when others sleep quietly.