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.

[Be grateful for the simple things in life. Don't take them for granted. After all...] What would a blind man give to see the pleasant rivers and meadows and flowers and fountains; and this and many other like blessings we enjoy daily.

Blessings we enjoy daily, and for the most of them, because they be so common, men forget to pay their praises. [and miss much of their benefits from grateful appreciation]

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

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

[T]is not all fishing to fish.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.