Let us not repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches, when, as God knows, the cares that are the keys that keep those riches hang often so heavily at the rich man's girdle that they dog him with weary days and restless nights, even when others sleep quietly.

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

This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.

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.

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

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.

If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.