You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of blessing attending upon it.

Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.

The will of man is by his reason swayed.

I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.

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.

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

I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.