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

So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.

The Waters are Nature's storehouse in which she locks up her wonders.

And this, and many other like blessings, we enjoy daily. And for most of them, because they be so common, most men forget to pay their praises: but let not us, because it is a sacrifice so pleasing to Him that made that sun and us, and still protects us, and gives us flowers, and showers, and stomachs, and meat, and content, and leisure to go a-fishing.

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

This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.

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