[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.

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

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

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

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.

An excellent angler, and now with God.

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