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

He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.

As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.

I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.

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

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

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.