PURPLE PATCHES
There are some fine passages, I am told, in that book.
Are there? Then beware of them. Fine passages are mostly culs de sac. For in books also does one see
Rich windows that exclude the light
And passages that lead to nothing.
A. W. and J. C. Hare. Guesses at Truth.
There's more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret things, and more books upon books than upon any other subject. We do but inter-glose ourselves. All swarmeth with commentaries; of authors there is great penury.—Montaigne.