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.
Izaak WaltonI have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.
Izaak WaltonIf all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.
Izaak WaltonLet us not repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches, when, as God knows, the cares that are the keys that keep those riches hang often so heavily at the rich man's girdle that they dog him with weary days and restless nights, even when others sleep quietly.
Izaak Walton