But God, who is able to prevail, wrestled with him, as the Angel did…

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

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

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

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 …

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

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt.