As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler

I have laid aside business, and gone a-fishing.

The great secretary of Nature and all learning, Sir Francis Bacon.

God has two dwellings — one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

But God, who is able to prevail, wrestled with him, as the Angel did with Jacob, and marked him; marked him for his own; marked him with a blessing, a blessing of obedience to the motions of his blessed Spirit.

For love is a flattering mischief, that hath denied aged and wise men a foresight of those evils that too often prove to be the children of that blind father; a passion, that carries us to commit errors with as much ease as whirlwinds move …

Of which, if thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent judge.