There are offences given and offences not given but taken. – 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
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
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees. – E.F. Schumacher