This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.

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.

Doubtless God Could Have Made A Better Berry, But Doubtless God Never Did

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

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.

And though it is most certain, that two lutes being both strung and turned to an equal pitch, and then one played upon, the other will warble a faint audible harmony in answer to the same tune: yet many will not believe there is any such thing as sympathy of souls, and I am well pleased that every reader do enjoy his own opinion.

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.