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

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.

[T]is not all fishing to fish.

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

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

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.

There are offences given and offences not given but taken.