Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.

When I want an opinion, I'll get it from my peers - from men of vision, like our great railroad builders... Stanford, Huntington, Dinsmore... fellows with imaginations broad enough to span the continent.

Trouble defies the law of gravity. It's easier to pick up than to drop.

Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be anywhere but where you were, with motion itself as the only object.

Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was one of ease and freedom, worldly wisdom, glitter, dash and style.

In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.

Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.