"For love is a flattering mischief, that hath denied aged and wise men a foresight of those evils that too often prove…"

"The great secretary of Nature and all learning, Sir Francis Bacon."

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

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

"Of which, if thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent judge."

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

"I shall stay him no longer than to wish him a rainy evening to read this following discourse; and that if he be an ho…"

"As the Italians say, Good company in a journey makes the way to seem the shorter."

"I am, sir, a Brother of the Angle."

"But God, who is able to prevail, wrestled with him, as the Angel did with Jacob, and marked him; marked him for his o…"