No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.
I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
The will of man is by his reason swayed.
There are offences given and offences not given but taken.
Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.
Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth!