[T]is not all fishing to fish.

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.

a woman will tell youevery home she has ever inhabitedhas been broken intostarting with her body

Fear is the vehicle in which love can do its worst.

Problems don't get better with time they become better when you find bravery. Success demands that you fight your fears.

We dedicate most of the time worrying about our deficiencies and self-criticism instead of concentrating on our goals and believing in our destination

If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even.

All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide.

Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.

Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.

The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived.

There is no such thing as solitude, nor anything that can be said to be alone and by itself but God, who is His own circle, and can subsist by Himself.