Izaak Walton

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

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

“He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping.”

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

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

“No man can lose what he never had.”

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

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

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

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

“Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.”

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

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

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