Every new idea is impossibility until it is born.
You cannot lose what you never had.
Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt.
Angling may be said to be so like the Mathematics that it can never be fully learnt; at least not so fully but that there will still be more new experiments left for the trial of other men that succeed us.
Angling is an Art. . . an art worth your learning.
I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.
It [angling] deserves commendations;. . . it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.
If sex were all, then every trembling hand Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words.
This dress makes me look fat," I told Jasmine as we stood near the back of the crowd and watched the last minute preperations fall into place. She glanced over at me and my efforts to rearrange the folds of my long, gauzy dress. "Your pregnant," she stated. "Everything's supposed to make you look fat. " I Scowled. "I think the correct reponse was 'No it doesn't.
As the social self can only be developed by contact with society, so the spiritual self can only be developed by contact with the spiritual world.
Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with the original.