Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.

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

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

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

I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.

Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.

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.