There are offences given and offences not given but taken.
God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.
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.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.