A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise meaning.
E. B. WhiteGeese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.
E. B. WhiteI am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
E. B. WhiteWalden is the only book I own, although there are some others unclaimed on my shelves. Every man, I think, reads one book in his life, and this is mine. It is not the best book I ever encountered, perhaps, but it is for me the handiest, and I keep it about me in much the same way one carries a handkerchief - for relief in moments of defluxion or despair.
E. B. White