Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.
[T]is not all fishing to fish.
If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.
Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.
It is agreed by most men, that the Eele is a most daintie fish; the Romans have esteemed her the Helena of their feasts, and some The Queen of pleasure.