As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler..

You cannot lose what you never had..

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

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..

I am, Sir, a brother of the angle..

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

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….

And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date..

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….

But God, who is ableto prevail, wrestled with him, as the Angel did with Jacob, and marked him; marked him for his own..

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

[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….

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

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

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….

This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men..

Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration..

No man can lose what he never had..

For love is a flattering mischief, that hath denied aged and wise men a foresight of those evils that too often prove to be the children of that blin….

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….

It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them..