Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.

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.

It's easy to make money, a lot tougher to make a difference

We live in an age of miracles so commonplace that it can be difficult to see them as anything other than part of the daily texture of living

For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like.

Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.

In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country.

When the storms of life strike, it's what happens in you that will determine what happens to you.

Fear of change perplexes monarchs.

An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.

There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.

Someone stole my shoelaces once from my shoes. I still wear them and never put laces in them - they're like my trademark shoes now!