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.

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.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

Bookshop and libraries are great celestial places to be.

When you can't enter through the front door, kick in a window.

We are the mountains we must cross.

I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.

Some of us are born with a sense of loss. It is not acquired as we grow. It is already there from the beginning, and it pervades us throughout our lives.

If I saved all the money I spent on beer, I'd spend it on beer.

gods are children's blankets that get carried over into adulthood.

I enjoy being the messenger for God in terms of letting people know about HIV and AIDS.

Don't be afraid to be unique. Love yourself before you love another.