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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

They ask little, for they know it is little they will receive for all their asking, but what little is so dear, as it always is to the autumn-hearted who know life is pitiful and infinitely sweet.

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

Love grows and wanes, but honor, duty, and commitment, those things are constant and stable. They define who you are.

Men did stupid things when they got romantic ideas in their heads.

Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.

Most governments are designed to protect the government from the people, whereas the United States government was organized to protect the people from the government.

I started to realise that being impolite saves an awful lot of time and costs you nothing.

I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.

Outside major darkness where the circle is complete there's no fear that lovers born will ever fail to meet

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.