Izaak Walton Quotes

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.

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

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.

That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.