No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.

- Izaak Walton

If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.

- Izaak Walton

You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of blessing attending upon it.

- Izaak Walton

O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?

- Izaak Walton

Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.

- Izaak Walton

He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.

- 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

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

- Izaak Walton

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

- Izaak Walton