Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element are made for wise men to contemplate, and for fools to pass… — 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.