It [angling] deserves commendations;… it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man. - Izaak Walton

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

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

For love is a flattering mischief, that hath denied aged and wise men a foresight of those evils that too often prove to be the children of that blind father; a passion, that carries us to commit errors with as much ease as whirlwinds move feathers, and begets in us an unwearied industry to the attainment of what we desire.