Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself. — Izaak Walton

It [angling] deserves commendations;… it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice

No man can lose what he never had.