If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.

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

And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.

That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.

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

We see but the outside of a rich man's happiness; few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time consuming herself.

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.