Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.

It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.

There are offences given and offences not given but taken.

Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, thought bitter, physic, to those children whose souls are dearest to him.

Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.

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.

[T]is not all fishing to fish.