We see but the outside of a rich man's happiness; few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time consuming herself.
No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
The will of man is by his reason swayed.
Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.