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

If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.

Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, thought bitter, physic, to those children whose souls are dearest to him.

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.

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

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.