Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.

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

No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.

[T]is not all fishing to fish.

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