Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing. [Not only be grateful for the good that you have but also for the bad you don't!]

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

Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing. [Not only be grateful for the good that you have but also for the bad you don't!]

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

Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, thought bitter, physic, to those children whose souls are dearest to him.

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

Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth!