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.

That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.

And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

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

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.

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.