Izaak Walton

""There are joys which long to be ours. God sends 10,000 truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.""

- Izaak Walton

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

- Izaak Walton

"As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler."

- Izaak Walton

"Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter."

- Izaak Walton

"God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart."

- Izaak Walton

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

- Izaak Walton