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

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.

There are offences given and offences not given but taken.

The Waters are Nature's storehouse in which she locks up her wonders.

We see but the outside of a rich man's happiness; few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time consuming herself.

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

I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.