Of this blest man, let his just praise be given, Heaven was in him, before he was in Heaven..

A companion that feasts the company with and mirth, and leaves out the sin which is usually mixed with them, he is the man; and let me tell you, good….

And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date..

He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES..

You cannot lose what you never had..

He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping. Therefore be sure you look to that, and in the next place look to your health; a….

There are offences given and offences not given but taken..

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art..

God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling..

Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good..

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things..

[Be grateful for the simple things in life. Don't take them for granted. After all...] What would a blind man give to see the pleasant rivers and mea….

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….

We see but the outside of a rich man's happiness; few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time co….

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

Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning..

Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself..

And though it is most certain, that two lutes being both strung and turned to an equal pitch, and then one played upon, the other will warble a faint….

Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt..

So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies..

Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling..