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.

[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.

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

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

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

It is agreed by most men, that the Eele is a most daintie fish; the Romans have esteemed her the Helena of their feasts, and some The Queen of pleasure.

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