In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.

No man is an Iland, intire of it ſelfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; […]

... or not until the emergence of a strong Sunnising trend in recent centuries ...

Finally, by actual trial, I have found that I can catch more rainbow by using one fly than with a two or three-fly cast.