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

If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of blessing attending upon it.

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.

Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.

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