Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

[Be grateful for the simple things in life. Don't take them for granted. After all...] What would a blind man give to see the pleasant rivers and meadows and flowers and fountains; and this and many other like blessings we enjoy daily.

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

Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.

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.

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

It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.