“Piscator, Auceps, and Venator,” Arthur Rackham, 1931.
“There is no necessity of being rich: for I told you, there be as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.”
Piscator, the “Master,” speaking to Venator, in Izaak Walton’s The Compleat Angler, 1653.
The Literary Fly Fisher 
September 29, 2015 at 6:36 PM |
Wisdom, gathered from the stream of life.
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October 1, 2015 at 12:02 AM |
Yep. The fact that Walton could publish a book like this one, when the blood was still fresh in the city streets from years of war, marks him as wise indeed.
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September 29, 2015 at 9:49 PM |
I’ve been rich, I’ve been poor, rich is better
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September 30, 2015 at 11:57 PM |
I’ll settle for not poor.
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