It [angling] deserves commendations;... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.

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.

For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.

‎"Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

I don't have to make examples out of players to establish my own place. I don't feel like I have to.

Fear is the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.

most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.

Christ by his death destroying the works of the devil, procuring the Spirit for us, hath so killed sin, as to its reign in believers, that it shall not obtain its end and dominion.

Credit cards are the WORST investment that you can make.

I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting.

I watched, along with all of you, as the tens of thousands of our people stood patiently in long queues for many hours. Some sleeping on the open ground overnight waiting to cast this momentous vote.

It is necessary to be humble in order to learn.