I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
A companion that feasts the company with and mirth, and leaves out the sin which is usually mixed with them, he is the man; and let me tell you, good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.
[T]is not all fishing to fish.
We see but the outside of a rich man's happiness; few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time consuming herself.