“Though fools spurn Hymen's gentle powers, we, who improve his golden hours, by sweet experience know that marriage, rightly understood, gives to the tender and the good a paradise below.”

Celebrating marriage as a source of earthly happiness when properly valued · The Fire-side

• Experience
• Happiness
• Marriage

“Let me tell you, here are some colours, contemptible as they seem here, that are very hard to be got; and scarce any one of them, which, if it should be lost, I should not miss and be concerned about the loss of it too, once in the year.”

Defending the value of seemingly trivial fishing colours to a sceptical visitor · The Compleat Angler (dialogue on fly-fishing materials)

• Nature
• Passion
• Practicality