"No man can lose what he never had."

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

"I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing."

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

"The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping."

"I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning."

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

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

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

"That which is everybody's business is nobody's business."

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

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

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