You cannot lose what you never had.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

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

O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?

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

I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.

And this, and many other like blessings, we enjoy daily. And for most of them, because they be so common, most men forget to pay their praises: but let not us, because it is a sacrifice so pleasing to Him that made that sun and us, and still protects us, and gives us flowers, and showers, and stomachs, and meat, and content, and leisure to go a-fishing.