Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.

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.

The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

My whole life, I've wanted to feel comfortable in my skin. It's the most liberating thing in the world.

We are all spirits inwardly. This is what's alive in the body, not the body on its own.

In all abundance there is lack.

Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection.

I don't need to speak...I play the guitar!

I only storyboard scenes that require special effects, where it is necessary to communicate through pictures.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate.

Those who talk too much about race no longer have it in them.