part ii

. sect. xi._

[205-4] After the war, aid.--_Greek proverb._

After me the deluge.--MADAME DE POMPADOUR.

[205-5] Hell is paved with good intentions.--DR. JOHNSON (Boswell's _Life of Johnson, Annus 1775_.)

[206-1] See Burton, page 192.

[206-2] Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small.--F. VON LOGAU (1614-1655): _Retribution_ (translation).

[206-3] They ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.--DRYDEN: _The Conquest of Grenada._

[206-4] God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.--STERNE: _Sentimental Journey._

[206-5] The lion is not so fierce as painted.--FULLER: _Expecting Preferment._

[206-6] God helps those who help themselves.--SIDNEY: _Discourses on Government, sect. xxiii._ FRANKLIN: _Poor Richard's Almanac._

[206-7] Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.--DR. MADDEN: _Boulter's Monument_ (supposed to have been inserted by Dr. Johnson, 1745).

[206-8] See Chaucer, page 4.

[206-9] See Burton, page 185.

IZAAK WALTON. 1593-1683.

Of which, if thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent judge.

_The Complete Angler. Author's Preface._

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

_The Complete Angler. Author's Preface._

As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.

_The Complete Angler. Author's Preface._

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

_The Complete Angler. Author's Preface._

As the Italians say, Good company in a journey makes the way to seem the shorter.

_The Complete Angler. Part i . Chap. 1._

I am, sir, a Brother of the Angle.

_The Complete Angler. Part i . Chap. 1._

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

_The Complete Angler. Part i . Chap. 1._

Angling is somewhat like poetry,--men are to be born so.

_The Complete Angler. Part i . Chap. 1._

Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.[207-1]

_The Complete Angler.