So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.

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.

Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.

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 we enjoy daily, and for the most of them, because they be so common, men forget to pay their praises. [and miss much of their benefits from grateful appreciation]

Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth!

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