Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing. [Not only be grateful for the good that you have but also for the bad you don't!]

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.

All I have ever wanted, needed, dreamed and desired is contained within you.

Some people survived the neolithic age by being brave, others by being cowardly and smart.

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.

'Do not expect help.' 'One should always hope.' 'Then hope for a handsome savage with kindly ways.'

If something's going wrong with this planet we'd better fix it here and not look for some sort of escape.

Why do you need to drive a Ferrari to get stuck in a traffic jam anyway? How do people afford these cars?

The headlines are critically important. The majority of the public reads little else when deciding whether or not they are interested.

Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.

No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes.

Slavery is the offspring of darkness.