Izaak Walton Quotes

Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.

I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.

Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing. [Not only be grateful for the good that you have but also for the bad you don't!]

Of this blest man, let his just praise be given, Heaven was in him, before he was in Heaven.

Blessings we enjoy daily, and for the most of them, because they be so common, men forget to pay their praises. [and miss much of their benefits from grateful appreciation]

Good company in a journey makes the way to seem the shorter.

Health is ... a blessing that money cannot buy.

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

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