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

The Waters are Nature's storehouse in which she locks up her wonders.

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

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

That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.

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.

These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.