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.

The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

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

There is a wheel within a wheel; a secret sacred wheel of Providence (most visible in marriages), guided by His hand that allows not the race to the swift nor bread to the wise, nor good wives to good men: and He that can bring good out of evil (for mortals are blind to this reason) only knows why this blessing was denied to patient Job, to meek Moses, and to our as meek and patient Mr Hooker.

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

God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

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