It is agreed by most men, that the Eele is a most daintie fish; the Romans have esteemed her the Helena of their feasts, and some The Queen of pleasure.

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.

God’s will be done on earth as it is in heaven

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Naturally, the Zen Master Rama philosophy is to have a high state of awareness and material success.

Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.

As so often in life, things are not always what it seems.

A woman has a responsibility and a privilege that a man doesnt have of given birth to another human being.

I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.

Truly enlightened people never seek to be like others. Rather, they seek to be superior to their former selves.

I'm sorry, dead people generally vote for Democrats rather than Republicans.

We cannot birth our babies through sheer force of will. We need to learn the more subtle, the equally powerful, path of surrender.