That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.
— Izaak Walton
As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.
Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.
No man can lose what he never had.
God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
In so doing, use him as though you loved him.
God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping.
I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
