And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.
Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing. [Not only be grateful for the good that you have but also for the bad you don't!]
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.
God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.
It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.