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

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.

I am one and when I am one I am none, and when I am none I have won.

The freedom is a tear digging into the flesh. (Doina Ruști -Manuscrisul fanariot)

Art expresses those unexplainable thoughts of our soul.

The imaginary is what tends to become real.

I was limply poking about in the garbage saying probably, for at that age I must still have been capable of general ideas, This is life.

Nothing's far when one wants to get there.

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

When you're dealing with monkeys, you've got to expect some wrenches.

The first great law is to obey.

I've said before that every craftsman searches for what's not there to practice his craft.