Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth!

Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.

And though it is most certain, that two lutes being both strung and turned to an equal pitch, and then one played upon, the other will warble a faint audible harmony in answer to the same tune: yet many will not believe there is any such thing as sympathy of souls, and I am well pleased that every reader do enjoy his own opinion.

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.

You cannot lose what you never had.