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

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

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.

And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.

And though it is most certain, that two lutes being both strung and turned to an equal pitch, and then one played upon, the other will warble a faint audible harmony in answer to the same tune: yet many will not believe there is any such thing as sympathy of souls, and I am well pleased that every reader do enjoy his own opinion.

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

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.