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]
