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

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

So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.

The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

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.

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

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.