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

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.

[T]is not all fishing to fish.

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

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.

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.

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.