I have laid aside business, and gone afishing. – Izaak Walton
I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning. – Izaak Walton
I have laid aside business, and gone afishing. – Izaak Walton
I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning. – Izaak Walton
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned. – Izaak Walton
We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did; and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. – Izaak Walton
Ah, if he could have plunged up into the clouds, so as to sweep thereon through the undulating heavens over the boundless earth!—ah, if he could have floated with the flower-fragrance over the flowers,—could have streamed with the wind over the summits, through the woods! – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,