What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections their author.
It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
Exercise is labor without weariness.
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion.