I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.
Words are men’s daughters, but God’s sons are things.
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
That which is everybody’s business is nobody’s business.
In so doing, use him as though you loved him.
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.
Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
I have laid aside business, and gone a’fishing.
No man can lose what he never had.