These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.

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

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

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

Look to your health: and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy; and therefore value it.

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

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.