Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.
There are offences given and offences not given but taken.
It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.
He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.
Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.
I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.