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

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.

It is agreed by most men, that the Eele is a most daintie fish; the Romans have esteemed her the Helena of their feasts, and some The Queen of pleasure.

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

[Be grateful for the simple things in life. Don't take them for granted. After all...] What would a blind man give to see the pleasant rivers and meadows and flowers and fountains; and this and many other like blessings we enjoy daily.

O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?

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.