Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.
Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth!
An excellent angler, and now with God.
There are offences given and offences not given but taken.
He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.
We see but the outside of a rich man's happiness; few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time consuming herself.