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

I have laid aside business, and gone a-fishing.

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."

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