God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
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.
[T]is not all fishing to fish.
You cannot lose what you never had.
We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did; and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.