This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.

He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.

Angling may be said to be so like the Mathematics that it can never be fully learnt; at least not so fully but that there will still be more new experiments left for the trial of other men that succeed us.

O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?

[T]is not all fishing to fish.

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.