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