Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England

There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor.

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England

One point is certain, that truth is one and immutable; until the jurors all agree, they cannot all be right.

The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value.

When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, these only continue the unaltered countenance of happier days, and cheer us with that true friendship which never deceived hope, nor deserted sorrow.