An excellent angler, and now with God.

I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.

If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.

We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did; and so, if I might be judge, 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.

Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.

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.