I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.

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.

You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of blessing attending upon it.

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

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

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

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