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

Look to your health: and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy; and therefore value it.

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.

It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.

No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.

That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.

It is agreed by most men, that the Eele is a most daintie fish; the Romans have esteemed her the Helena of their feasts, and some The Queen of pleasure.