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

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.

Your life is always under construction. It is your job to learn how to untangle the threads and weave a tapestry that matches your desires.

Trust in God's timing. It's better to have to wait a while and have things fall into place then to rush into something and have things fall apart.

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.

Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it.

I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.

I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.

For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation?

So I wonder if anything should ever be off limits.

When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.

I like the fact that a modern television and modern drama on cable has characters that are really intricate and deep and have multiple layers.