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

As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.

Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.

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.

Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.

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.

And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.