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.

Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.

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

God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

There are offences given and offences not given but taken.

These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.

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.