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

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

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

Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth!

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

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.

No man can lose what he never had.