So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.

God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

Angling may be said to be so like the Mathematics that it can never be fully learnt; at least not so fully but that there will still be more new experiments left for the trial of other men that succeed us.

There are offences given and offences not given but taken.

Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.