Izaak Walton Quotes

He would often say, Religion does not banish mirth, but only moderates and sets rules to it.

She and I both love all anglers, they be such honest, civil quiet men.

An excellent angler, and now with God.

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean with inclination to it.

I shall stay the reader no longer than to wish him a rainy day to read this…discourse; and that if he be an honest angler, the east wind may never blow when he goes a-fishing.

But God, who is able to prevail, wrestled with him, as the Angel did with Jacob, and marked him; marked him for his own.