Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.

He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping. Therefore be sure you look to that, and in the next place look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience.

Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, thought bitter, physic, to those children whose souls are dearest to him.