• We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, ''Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did''; and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

  Izaak Walton
  British writer 1593-1683
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. strawberries
2. recreation
3. innocent
4. berry
5. never
6. might

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We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, ''Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did''; and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. by : Izaak Walton

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