Port Handled

Famous quotes containing the words port and/or handled:

“It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or the fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Assent, and you are sane;
Demur,—you’re straightway dangerous,
And handled with a chain.”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)