The lift cannot be used to take sailboats over the dam unless the sailboat has a removable centerboard. Other larger boats cannot use the lift. Constant repair costs money.

Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up.

I'll lift you and you lift me, and we'll both ascend together.

The difference ‘twixt poet and coxcomb is precisely that the latter stops gaps like a ship fitter caulking seams, merely to keep the boat afloat, while the former doth his work as doth a man with a maid: he fills the gap, but with vigor, finesse, and care; there’s beauty and delight as well as utility in his plugging

Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she'd see him entire, like a poem or story, and find his words so valuable after all that when he confessed his apprehensions she would explain why they were in fact the very things that made him precious to her...and to Western Civilization! There was no such girl, the simple truth being.

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations.