God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration.
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.
No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern’d angler.
Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
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.
I have laid aside business, and gone a’fishing.
Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.
God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.
O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?