I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season..

O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?.

And this, and many other like blessings, we enjoy daily. And for most of them, because they be so common, most men forget to pay their praises: but l….

No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler..

I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing..

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice.

That which is everybody's business is nobody's business..

An excellent angler, and now with God..

Doubtless God Could Have Made A Better Berry, But Doubtless God Never Did.

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

[T]is not all fishing to fish..

Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good..

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

I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing..

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

Oh, the gallant fisher's life!It is the best of any;'T is full of pleasure, void of strife,And 't is beloved by many..

Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing..

Blessings we enjoy daily, and for the most of them, because they be so common, men forget to pay their praises. [and miss much of their benefits from….

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

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

Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth!.