John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
2327 Izaak Walton 1593-1683 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 2327 |
| AUTHOR: | Izaak Walton (1593–1683) |
| QUOTATION: | Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | The Complete Angler. Part i. Chap. i. |
| Note 1. Virtue is her own reward.—John Dryden: Tyrannic Love, act iii. sc. 1. Virtue is to herself the best reward.—Henry More: Cupid’s Conflict. Virtue is its own reward.—Matthew Prior: Imitations of Horace, book iii. ode 2. John Gay: Epistle to Methuen. Home: Douglas, act iii. sc. 1. Virtue was sufficient of herself for happiness.—Diogenes Laertius: Plato, xlii. Ipsa quidem virtus sibimet pulcherrima merces (Virtue herself is her own fairest reward).—Silius Italicus (25?–99): Punica, lib. xiii. line 663. [back] |