Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, thought bitter, physic, to ….

It is agreed by most men, that the Eele is a most daintie fish; the Romans have esteemed her the Helena of their feasts, and some The Queen of pleasu….

If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped..

Let us not repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches, when, as God knows, the cares that are….

We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did; and so, if I m….

Angling may be said to be so like the Mathematics that it can never be fully learnt; at least not so fully but that there will still be more new expe….

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

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

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….

The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping..

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

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

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue..

You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of blessing attending upon it..

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter..

These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly..

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

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

It [angling] deserves commendations;... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man..

The will of man is by his reason swayed..

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so..