"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."

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

"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."

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