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

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.

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

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.

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

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

And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.