Izaak Walton

"We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries: "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did"; and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, qui…"

"Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element are made for wise men to contemplate, and for fools to pass by without consideration."

"But God, who is able to prevail, wrestled with him, as the Angel did with Jacob, and marked him; marked him for his own; marked him with a blessing, a blessing of obedience to the motions of his bless…"

"Of which, if thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent judge."

"I remember that a wise friend of mine did usually say, "That which is everybody's business is nobody's business."

"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 am, sir, a Brother of the Angle."

"For love is a flattering mischief, that hath denied aged and wise men a foresight of those evils that too often prove to be the children of that blind father; a passion, that carries us to commit erro…"