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.

Doubtless God Could Have Made A Better Berry, But Doubtless God Never Did

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

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

[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.

These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.

And though it is most certain, that two lutes being both strung and turned to an equal pitch, and then one played upon, the other will warble a faint audible harmony in answer to the same tune: yet many will not believe there is any such thing as sympathy of souls, and I am well pleased that every reader do enjoy his own opinion.