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• Angling is somewhat like poetry,--men are to be born so.
  -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Complete Angler, Part i, Chap. 1...
• Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.
  -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Complete Angler, Part i, Chap. 1...
• And upon all that are lovers of virtue, and dare trust in his Providence, and be quiet and go a-angling.
  -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Complete Angler, Part i, Chap. 21...
• It [angling] deserves commendations;... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.
  -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Complete Angler, Part i, Chap. 1...
• No man can lose what he never had. -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Complete Angler, Part i, Chap.
  v...
• An excellent angler, and now with God. -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Complete Angler, Part i, Chap.
  iv...
• You will find angling to be like the virtue of humility, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of other blessings attending upon it.
  -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Complete Angler, Part i, Chap. 1...
• As the Italians say, Good company in a journey makes the way to seem the shorter.
  -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Complete Angler, Part i, Chap. 1...
• Health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of,--a blessing that money cannot buy.
  -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Complete Angler, Part i, Chap. 21...