Izaak Walton

A companion that feasts the company with wit and mirth and leaves out the sin which is usually mixed with them he is the man and let me tell you good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

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

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

In so doing, use him as though you loved him.

I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.

Look to your health and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of a blessing that money cannot buy.

I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.

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

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

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

That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

No man can lose what he never had.

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