"To write a verse or two is all the praise That I can raise."

Praise.

"Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky."

Virtue.

"Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie."

Virtue.

"Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like seasoned timber, never gives."

Virtue.

"Like summer friends, Flies of estate and sunneshine."

The Answer.

"A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws Makes that and th' action fine."

The Elixir.

"A verse may find him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice."

The Church Porch.

"Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby."

The Church Porch.

"Chase brave employment with a naked sword Throughout the world."

The Church Porch.

"Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, 'T is angels' music."

The Church Porch.

"The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth Pa-ti-ence."

The Church Porch.

"Bibles laid open, millions of surprises."

Sin.

"Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand."

The Church Militant.

"Man is one world, and hath Another to attend him."

Man.

"If goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to my breast."

The Pulley.

"The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords If when the soul unto the lines accords."

A True Hymn.

"Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?"

The Size.

"Do well and right, and let the world sink."

Country Parson. Chap. xxix.

"His bark is worse than his bite."

Jacula Prudentum.

"After death the doctor."

Jacula Prudentum.

"Hell is full of good meanings and wishings."

Jacula Prudentum.

"No sooner is a temple built to God, but the Devil builds a chapel hard by."

Jacula Prudentum.

"God's mill grinds slow, but sure."

Jacula Prudentum.

"The offender never pardons."

Jacula Prudentum.

"It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle."

Jacula Prudentum.

"To a close-shorn sheep God gives wind by measure."

Jacula Prudentum.

"The lion is not so fierce as they paint him."

Jacula Prudentum.

"Help thyself, and God will help thee."

Jacula Prudentum.

"Words are women, deeds are men."

Jacula Prudentum.

"The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken."

Jacula Prudentum.

"A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees farther of the two."

Jacula Prudentum.

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

The Complete Angler. Author's Preface.

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

The Complete Angler. Author's Preface.

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

The Complete Angler. Author's Preface.

"I shall stay him no longer than to wish him a rainy evening to read this following discourse; and that if he be an honest angler, the east wind may never blow when he goes a fishing."

The Complete Angler. Author's Preface.

"As the Italians say, Good company in a journey makes the way to seem the shorter."

The Complete Angler. Part i. Chap. 1.

"I am, sir, a Brother of the Angle."

The Complete Angler. Part i. Chap. 1.

"It [angling] deserves commendations; . . . it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man."

The Complete Angler. Part i. Chap. 1.

"Angling is somewhat like poetry,--men are to be born so."

The Complete Angler. Part i. Chap. 1.

"Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself."

The Complete Angler. Part i. Chap. 1.

"Sir Henry Wotton was a most dear lover and a frequent practiser of the Art of Angling; of which he would say, "'T was an employment for his idle time, which was then not idly spent, a rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer of contentedness;" and "that it begat habits of peace and patience in those that professed and practised it.""

The Complete Angler. Part i. Chap. 1.

"You will find angling to be like the virtue of humility, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of other blessings attending upon it."

The Complete Angler. Part i. Chap. 1.

"I remember that a wise friend of mine did usually say, "That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.""

The Complete Angler. Part i. Chap. ii.

"Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue."

The Complete Angler. Part i. Chap. ii.

"An excellent angler, and now with God."

The Complete Angler. Part i. Chap. iv.

"Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good."

The Complete Angler. Part i. Chap. iv.

"No man can lose what he never had."

The Complete Angler. Part i. Chap. v.

"We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries: "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did;" and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling."

The Complete Angler. Part i. Chap. v.

"Thus use your frog: put your hook--I mean the arming wire--through his mouth and out at his gills, and then with a fine needle and silk sew the upper part of his leg with only one stitch to the arming wire of your hook, or tie the frog's leg above the upper joint to the armed wire; and in so doing use him as though you loved him."

The Complete Angler. Part i. Chap. 8.

"This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men."

The Complete Angler. Part i. Chap. 8.