And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.

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

No man can lose what he never had.

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, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

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

He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.

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