The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

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

And this, and many other like blessings, we enjoy daily. And for most of them, because they be so common, most men forget to pay their praises: but let not us, because it is a sacrifice so pleasing to Him that made that sun and us, and still protects us, and gives us flowers, and showers, and stomachs, and meat, and content, and leisure to go a-fishing.

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.

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

So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.

Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.