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

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

If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.

Blessings we enjoy daily, and for the most of them, because they be so common, men forget to pay their praises. [and miss much of their benefits from grateful appreciation]

Angling may be said to be so like the Mathematics that it can never be fully learnt; at least not so fully but that there will still be more new experiments left for the trial of other men that succeed us.

You cannot lose what you never had.

No man can lose what he never had.