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.

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.

So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.

It is agreed by most men, that the Eele is a most daintie fish; the Romans have esteemed her the Helena of their feasts, and some The Queen of pleasure.

That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.

Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.