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

And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.

I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.

Look to your health: and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy; and therefore value it.

And this, and many other like blessings, we enjoy daily. And for most of them, because they be so common, most men forget to pay their praises: but let not us, because it is a sacrifice so pleasing to Him that made that sun and us, and still protects us, and gives us flowers, and showers, and stomachs, and meat, and content, and leisure to go a-fishing.

Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.

Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.