I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.
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.
Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.
No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.