Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.
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.
And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.
The Waters are Nature's storehouse in which she locks up her wonders.
It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.