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.

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 …

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

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.