I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.

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.

A real musician ain’t gonna choose his own guitar like an evil master choosing his slave. The guitar will choose his master and when he does, you’ll know it.

None of us really know what we’re doing, ” Dia replied. “We just go out there and do it and have faith it’ll turn out okay.

In my view, the gospels are true, not historically, but theologically, or, as I would argue, prophetically! What we have is, the Messiah’s history written in advance in story form.

How young can you die of old age?

It's important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They're the star.

It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured.

My trade is a lonely one. I'm a craftsman, if you like. It so happens that these days singers are better paid than blacksmiths.

There comes a point where you see no evidence that the carrot and diplomacy are working.

We speak piously of ... making small studies that will add another brick to the temple of science. Most such bricks just lie around the brickyard.

Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.