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

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

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

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

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

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
Izaak Walton

I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
Izaak Walton

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

In so doing, use him as though you loved him.
Izaak Walton

No man can lose what he never had.
Izaak Walton


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

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

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
Izaak Walton

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
Izaak Walton