If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.
Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.
Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.
Angling may be said to be so like the Mathematics that it can never be fully learnt; at least not so fully but that there will still be more new experiments left for the trial of other men that succeed us.
God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.