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.

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

There are offences given and offences not given but taken.

Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.

No man can lose what he never had.

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.