I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning. - Izaak Walton

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

Sir Henry Wotton was a most dear lover and a frequent practiser of the Art of Angling; of which he would say, "'T was an employment for his idle time, which was then not idly spent, a rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer of contentedness;" and "that it begat habits of peace and patience in those that professed and practised it."

Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.