I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.

the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.

he who gives quickly gives twice / in nothing so much as in a letter.

If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.

The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral; he could handle any missile.